David Laws and v-cs to advise new £2.5m HE foundation
UPP Foundation will seek to invest money in areas such as access and retention for students from disadvantaged backgrounds
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THE podcast: 21-27 April 2016 issue review
 The latest edition of ߣߣÊÓƵ discussed by our editorial team
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Interview with Alan Finnegan
We talk tours of duty, support for veterans and the travails of following Aston Villa with Chester’s new nursing professor
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Syrian student: ‘I knew I could never move forward' without HE
A recipient of the Institute of International Education’s Syrian scholarship fund describes her experience at a US university
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Academics ‘must adapt to their audience’ for impactful research
Researchers must learn to think like marketers if they want policymakers to listen, suggests discussion paper
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Howard Shugart, 1931-2016
A leading physics educator has died
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Is Snapchat the new Twitter on campus?
Universities are beginning to explore using a new set of social media apps as students give up on Facebook and Twitter
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Tracking student emotions 'could improve online retention'
Open University explores whether webcams can be used to monitor learners' facial expressions or eye movements
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Social Media in an English Village, by Daniel Miller
Digital habits reveal the delicate dance between our public and private selves, says Tara Brabazon
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Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain, by Elizabeth Yale
James Delbourgo on a study of how scientists shared information and how through it they constructed the nation as an object of study
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New and noteworthy – 21 April 2016
Tudor shades of emotional grey, China's 'overquota' generation, pithy philosophy and 1930s London's electric dreams: unmissable scholarly books
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What are you reading? – 21 April 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Weekend Pilots: Technology, Masculinity and Private Aviation in Postwar America, by Alan Meyer
James Crouse on the exclusive, macho culture of recreational flyers in post-Second World War US
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Laughter and War: Humorous-Satirical Magazines in Britain, France, Germany and Russia, 1914-1918, by Lesley Milne
Kate Macdonald on the publications that used humour to share the trauma of the First World War
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The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State, by Fang Lizhi
Book of the week: The Chinese government’s persecution of Fang Lizhi remains baffling, says Jonathan Mirsky