UK vice-chancellors are not overpaid
Running a major university today is a hugely demanding job that requires a rare skill set, says Len Shackleton
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English state schools fall behind on selective university access
Private school pupils 43 percentage points more likely to enrol in most prestigious institutions
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Career advice: how to be an effective personal tutor
Emily McIntosh and David Grey offer advice on rediscovering a ‘lost art’
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Anthony Evans, 1929-2017
Creator of Leicester’s courses in applied geology remembered
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Interview with Isaac Larsen
We discuss the challenges facing early career researchers, parenthood and tearful graduations with the award-winning University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientist
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After the rise of Trump, the rise of Trump studies
Academics just keep on finding new ways of exploring the phenomenon of the US president
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Stalin’s Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler’s Collaborators, 1941-1945, by Mark Edele
Quislings who joined Nazis to survive were erased from Russian history, observes Jonathan Mirsky
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life, by Laura Dassow Walls
Catherine Clinton enters the beguiling lost world of a complex literary figure and seeker of truth
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The Wealth Paradox: Economic Prosperity and the Hardening of Attitudes, by Frank Mols and Jolanda Jetten
The notion that only the ‘left-behind’ poor are xenophobic is a myth, Eliane Glaser learns
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Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming, by Benjamin R. Barber
Steven Yearley considers the argument that metropolitan centres, not nation states, hold the power to take the lead on climate change
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More UK universities appeal against TEF ratings
UEA and Soas among institutions challenging awards in sector-wide assessment of teaching quality
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Machine learning: universities ready students for AI revolution
Sydney’s move towards programmes focused on problem-solving designed to address rise of artificial intelligence and automation
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The week in higher education – 3 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Carrots and sticks are not enough in Indonesia
Without more research funding, senior Indonesian academics are unlikely to be able to meet new government-imposed publication standards, says Martin Surya Mulyadi