How to be happy: academics advise on what brings joy at work
From neuroscience to philosophy and economics, seven scholars relate what work in their disciplines reveals about the search for #HEhappiness
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Survey results confirm UK university staff's deep dissatisfaction
Extended senior management survey finds that employees are extremely unhappy with the people running universities
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Interview with Shamit Saggar
The new chair of the Campaign for Social Science on ethnic minorities, the similarity between law and academia and universities swallowing the management textbook
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Gerald Bernbaum, 1936-2017
Former vice-chancellor of London South Bank University remembered
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Subject cost data add fuel to England's variable fees debate
Analysis of departmental spending suggests there is a large gulf in costs between some disciplines
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Career advice: how to write a PhD proposal
Pragya Agarwal considers what aspiring doctoral students can do to make their application stand out from the rest
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story, by Miranda Kaufmann
Many immigrants in Renaissance times were not slaves but professionals, learns Lucy Wooding
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Mischka’s War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York, by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Robert Eaglestone praises an absorbing account of eminent scientist Michael Danos’ life that straddles biography and history
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Game Changer: the Techno-Scientific Revolution in Sports, by Rayvon Fouché
Is there anything new in technological advantage adding to sporting prowess, asks Lincoln Allison
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Life Through Time and Space, by Wallace Arthur
Looking outward may give us a better understanding of the progression of life and the inevitability of natural selection, says Tiffany Taylor
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BPP shuts dental course as regulator raises safety concerns
Students on course forced to find alternative programmes, as government plans to open English sector further to new providers
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The week in higher education – 5 October 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Student success is a question of attitude
Teaching students to attribute their failures to factors within their control can lead to big gains, say Rodney Clifton, Gabor Csepregi and Masha Krylova
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When you’re in the eye of the storm, academics look away
A hurricane strike last year brought home to Zachary Michael Jack the academy's failure to live up to its compassionate values Â
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DeVos’ rule changes on handling sexual assault will benefit everyone
Obama-era overreaction to HE ‘rape culture’ obstructed justice