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Making political interventions more effective

Lennard Davis wonders whether activist academics have wrongly prioritised exuberantly bad behaviour over the hard graft of working for real change

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Opinion

By Ararat Osipian

Sexual harassment in Ukrainian universities must be tackled

Free of Communist-era secretiveness, the new president might be willing to tackle abuses of power on campus, says Ararat Osipian

16 September

Ethical review should apply to non-academic research, too

It is unfair and dangerous that, unlike academics, researchers in the private sector operate with no ethical oversight, says Ron Iphofen

India’s ranking decline is a timely wake-up call

Colonial hangovers and political interference are holding back India’s large public universities, says Saikat Majumdar

The impact agenda has refreshed my academic career

By Andrew McRae

13 September

UK universities’ global pre-eminence is in peril

By Louise Richardson

12 September

How to survive in the era of academic overproduction

By Michael Marinetto

11 September

Reintroducing post-study work visas will help UK HE remain competitive

By Seema Kennedy

10 September

World Policy

Sexual harassment in Ukrainian universities must be tackled

Free of Communist-era secretiveness, the new president might be willing to tackle abuses of power on campus, says Ararat Osipian

Editor's pick

How to survive in the era of academic overproduction

Historic prompts on how to keep overbearing expectations at arm’s length should be taken up by modern academics, says Michael Marinetto

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Strong and stable is better for universities than weak and wobbly

Underinvesting in universities in the face of international competition and political upheaval will be to countries’ social and economic detriment

Careers

By Nick Mayo

Careers intelligence: how to avoid ‘death by PowerPoint’

There are plenty of pitfalls to be aware of when using slides in a presentation – academics in the know give their top tips

22 August

Careers intelligence: how to be an external examiner

External examining will make you rich – in new ideas, that is, writes Robert MacIntosh

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Careers intelligence: how to write a reference

Robert MacIntosh offers some tips on dealing with the deluge of student reference requests – and on how to get a decent one yourself

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Book Reviews

Book of the week

By Jules Pretty

The Last Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature, by Nick Haddad

Book of the week: Jules Pretty admires a powerful study of what a declining insect population reveals about how we are treating the planet

12 September

Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks, by David Yearsley

Benjamin Ivry assesses an attempt to humanise the unapproachable genius of J. S. Bach

Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis, by Noëlle McAfee

Devorah Baum is fascinated by a look at how politics needs to take much greater account of the experiences of early childhood

War re-enactors visit the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia

To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe, by Matthew Lockwood

Elizabeth Cobbs is unconvinced by a lively revisionist account of what the American Revolution did to the wider world

What are you reading? – 12 September 2019

Our fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Shelf Life

Books interview: Prashant Kidambi

The author of Cricket Country on childhood reading, reflecting on the relationship between sport and society, and his favourite fiction genre

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What are you reading? – 12 September 2019

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