Athena SWAN success brings new challenges
The equality charter’s influence, take-up and ambitions are growing, writes Holly Else, but so are expectations
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Referencing headaches? There’s an app for that
In just under a year, RefME, a UK-built online tool that takes the sweat out of citations, has attracted almost a million users
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Addicted to sex? It’s unlikely, say academics
Kiwi historians claim the concept is incoherent and moralistic
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News in brief – 2 July 2015
UK higher education round-up and highlights from the Twittersphere
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From fair Verona to the wall beyond Ramallah
Teaching Shakespeare in Palestine was intense, disturbing and unforgettable, a University of Bristol lecturer says
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Times are tough, say majority of Irish academics
Post-2007 conditions are worse, workloads are higher and it’s ‘all about the money’ for management, report three-quarters of survey respondents
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World in brief – 2 July 2015
Higher education news from around the globe
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Lord Rees on the future of UK research
Haldane unbound would be as dangerous as unchecked utilitarianism, argues the astronomer royal
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Impaired drivers of higher education growth
David Willetts is wrong: the sector is put at risk by the student loans system’s structural flaws, warns Andrew McGettigan
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The pleasure and pain of a good pair of shoes
Heels are instruments both of torture and feminism, says Sally Feldman
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 2 July 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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The UCU needs to adjust its focus
I worked as principal caseworker for the University and College Union branch at the University of Exeter for more than five years, handling more than 250 cases during that period. It is good to read...
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Courting disaster
It is a failure of common sense for a Russell Group university to dismiss one of its most successful and highly cited academics without exhaustively exploring the grounds for compromise (“Dismissal...
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All about that baseline
On 16 June, Alex Chisholm, chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority, wrote a letter to Sajid Javid, the new secretary of state at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills,...