Germany’s Bologna Process: ‘not as bad as everybody thinks’
Analysis finds new bachelor’s graduates do well in labour market, particularly those from more practically focused universities
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What is it really like to head up a university department?
Seven academic leaders share their experiences at the departmental helm along with their tips on how to squeeze the best out of sceptical staff and meagre budgets – and still find time for research
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Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America, by Nathaniel Frank
Steven Vaughan admires a powerful, rich and moving legal history of same-sex union
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Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin, by Cornelia Dean
Laura Bowater appreciates a layperson’s guide to identifying scientific fact from fiction
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Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter, by Ewan Fernie
What use is the Bard? In politics or life, what you do with his plays is up to you, finds Peter J. Smith
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The Paula Principle: How and Why Women Work Below their Level of Competence, by Tom Schuller
Vicky Duckworth on the injustice and discrimination that means many working women do not fulfil their potential
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The Russell Group’s power over English education must be wielded more wisely
Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane
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Part-time ‘private’ professors: can they save niche subjects?
Medieval employment practice used by University of Amsterdam may help to preserve under-threat humanities disciplines, experts say
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Sci-Hub study suggests publishers’ embargoes ‘not viable’
Analysis of scholarly publishing’s ‘Napster’ shows that academics are not prepared to wait to access research
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Hot or not? Academics rate students’ attractiveness for study
‘Peculiar’ experiment fails to find link between physical appearance and grades
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‘Major risk’ to European research from UK’s EU budget delay
British universities would be ‘most affected’ by failure to increase Horizon 2020 funding, MEP warns
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University finances: start spreading the risk
As universities rely on multiple income streams to stay afloat, private money comes with caveats and portfolios must balance profit and principle
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Managers need basic lessons in leadership
In the feature “Leading lights” (4 May), Agnes Bäker and Amanda Goodall make an excellent and spot-on argument that the best academics make the best heads of department, which applies even higher up...