Vice-chancellors pocket almost £1 million in exit payments
First sector-wide analysis of UK vice-chancellors’ pay in 2016-17 reveals more six-figure pay-offs to departing heads
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Subra Suresh: why I swapped Carnegie Mellon for Singapore
No better place than city state for higher education's new era, says Nanyang Technological University president
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Career advice: how to peer review a paper
Detail, clarity and a constructive approach: all these are key to a helpful review, writes Sophie Inge
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Number of women with engineering PhDs on the up in UK
But growth in those completing postgraduate research degrees in physics appears have stalled, according to latest Hesa data
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The week in higher education – 22 February 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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In the Children’s Best Interests: Unaccompanied Children in American-Occupied Germany, 1945-1952, by Lynne Taylor
A study of search parties pursuing minors in the rubble explores every corner, says Dan Stone
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British Universities in the Brexit Moment: Political, Economic and Cultural Implications, by Mike Finn
Roger Brown on a study of the implications for universities of leaving the European Union
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The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement, by Martyn Frampton
The UK and the US have vilified this Islamic group, but both worked with it, says Madawi Al-Rasheed
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Under the Cover of Chaos: Trump and the Battle for the American Right, by Lawrence Grossberg
As president, Trump may be less an aberration than some think, but he attracts those whose only politics is to ‘send in a wrecking ball’, writes Martin Cohen
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Students ‘deeply sceptical’ of variable fees, polling reveals
Survey results emerge amid mounting criticism of government’s hopes of delivering greater price competition
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USS strike: staff walkout is only way left to stop unnecessary pension cuts
Academics do not want to damage students' education but strike action is the only option left to protect pensions, says Sam Marsh
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Research power shifting to Germany after Brexit vote, says report
European universities, despite public dismay about Brexit, also privately see it as an opportunity to poach UK-based academics
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THE podcast: v-c pay and 'grand challenges' in research
The latest edition of ߣߣÊÓƵ discussed by the editorial team
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Interview with Sam Beale
The Middlesex University expert in stand-up comedy discusses working in the West Bank, collaborating with Mark Thomas, and falling into academia
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Robert McCormick Adams, 1926-2018
Pioneer of innovative methods of landscape archaeology remembered