Germany signs open access publishing deal with Wiley
Country moves away from subscriptions and towards ‘publish and read’ model
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Share of UK students getting a first goes up again
Latest Hesa data also reveal that part-time enrolments are now below 500,000
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French university admissions: the crème de la crème?
Reforms to the French university admission system have ushered in greater selectivity in an attempt to address high dropout rates. But without adequate filtering by family background, will this...
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Mobile Orientations: An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders, by Nicola Mai
Barry Reay praises an interdisciplinary study that demolishes stereotypes of slavery, trafficking and exploitation
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What are you reading? – 17 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Academic partnerships: perfect harmony
Some research disciplines have their very own ‘Simon and Garfunkel’. Matthew Reisz talks to some of those whose close and enduring collaborations have convinced them that two voices are better than...
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It is time to close the management/staff divide
UK university leaders might be bullish on the subject of institutional failure but the divide between managers and staff needs serious redress
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Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Book of the week: writers shine a light on the disturbing gap between human rights and realpolitik, finds Matthew Joseph
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Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and their Animals in Early Modern England, by Erica Fudge
Ann Hughes visits a time when relationships with animals combined affection and pragmatism
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To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, by Eleonory Gilburd
Kristen R. Ghodsee learns how Western cultural products imported into the Soviet Union allowed people to travel in their imaginations, despite being physically restricted
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New and noteworthy – 17 January 2019
Edward Said’s influential imperial critique, Alexander the Great’s long artistic afterlife, mosquitoes’ place in empire, and black activists’ efforts to ‘decolonise Britain’
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Academics who work when sick risk burnout, professor warns
Survey of more than 5,000 UK researchers finds about half keep working when they are unwell
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The week in higher education – 17 January 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Third of PhD students in Europe ‘fail to complete in six years’
Supervision highlighted as a ‘big challenge’ in wake of study on doctoral educationÂ