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A level results day 2017: survival pack

Be prepared for this A level results day with this live blog full of advice, statistics and case studies from other students

By Seeta Bhardwa

17 August

University financial health check 2017: future prospects?

17 August

Universities vital to ending shameful neglect of Britain’s regions

16 August

All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist

17 August

UK university acceptances fall by 2 per cent

By Holly Else

17 August

University fossil fuel divestment total tips £80 billion globally

By John Morgan

17 August

Results of clinical trials ‘missing’ from registries

By John Elmes

17 August

Is self-promotion hurting scholarship?

Spreading the word on social media about research can help academics get ahead, but is it too much of a distraction, asks Brooke Erin Duffy

By Brooke Erin Duffy

17 August

A level results day 2017: survival pack

Be prepared for this A level results day with this live blog full of advice, statistics and case studies from other students

By Seeta Bhardwa

17 August

University financial health check 2017: future prospects?

17 August

Universities vital to ending shameful neglect of Britain’s regions

16 August

All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist

17 August

Female leadership advances slowly in world's top universities

Analysis of THE World University Rankings data shows gender gap for top jobs has narrowed further

UK universities aided by falling pound’s impact on overseas fees

Complete University Guide’s international and postgraduate fees survey for 2017 also suggests Brexit caution on rises in some areas

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16 August

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3 September - 5 September 2017

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Career advice: how to run a tutorial for the first time

Kevin O’Gorman and Robert MacIntosh offer tips on how to master the art of small group teaching

By Kevin O’Gorman

17 August

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News

UK university acceptances fall by 2 per cent

Lower-ranked institutions lose out as drop in EU and mature student applications drive decline

By Holly Else

17 August

University fossil fuel divestment total tips £80 billion globally

UK emerges as campaign’s world leader as nine new institutions announce commitments

By John Morgan

17 August

Results of clinical trials ‘missing’ from registries

Omissions make it harder to find data, report says

By John Elmes

17 August

University finances vulnerable as reliance on fees grows

By Simon Baker

17 August

UK universities aided by falling pound’s impact on overseas fees

By Simon Baker

17 August

Campus anthems: higher education’s pop ‘image problem’ revealed

By Matthew Reisz

17 August

Rethink of EU research membership rules may offer UK ‘solution’

By Holly Else

16 August

North Korea’s ‘Western’ university at risk as tensions rise

By Jack Grove

16 August

Female leadership advances slowly in world's top universities

By Ellie Bothwell

16 August

UEA upgraded to gold in teaching excellence framework on appeal

By John Morgan

15 August

Council of Europe calls on Hungary to redraw higher education law

By David Matthews

15 August

‘Almost half’ of recent research papers now open access

By Holly Else

15 August

University financial health check 2017: future prospects?

UK universities face uncertainty over the impact of Brexit and the TEF, the future for tuition fees and a pensions deficit. Which institutions have the financial clout and diversified portfolios to survive? Simon Baker runs the numbers

17 August

All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist

Dame Sue Black’s pioneering work has taken her to war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters. She explains the scientific rigour required in the field

Idol imaginings: academics reveal the childhood heroes who inspired their careers

Many an academic will be dragged to the cinema this summer by bored offspring determined to see the latest superhero film. But what kind of childhood heroes did scholars themselves have? Here, five reveal who and what inspired their career choices

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Opinion

By Brooke Erin Duffy

Is self-promotion hurting scholarship?

Spreading the word on social media about research can help academics get ahead, but is it too much of a distraction, asks Brooke Erin Duffy

17 August

Is abolishing tuition fees regressive? It depends how it’s done

Replacing England’s tuition fee system with a cheaper and fairer alternative is not as difficult as many claim, says Andrew Adonis

A level results: higher education sector responds

Key figures from the university sector respond to the 2017 A level results

Universities are rising from ruins of war

By Dlawer Ala'Aldeen

17 August

The challenges and rewards of accepting a refugee student

By Sharon Maxwell Magnus

12 August

‘We need to talk about your gross teaching quotient’

By Andrew McRae

10 August

We must rescue social science research from obscurity

By Yiannis Gabriel

10 August

Policy watch

On v-c pay, clarity begins at home

Remuneration committees should pay less attention to other institutions when setting their leaders’ pay, says Nick Hillman

World insight

Universities are rising from ruins of war

Kurdistan shows that post-conflict countries can build a thriving higher education sector by working with foreign partners, says Dlawer Ala’Aldeen

The newsroom blog

Plan for the unimaginable

Universities used to be thought unsinkable, but the unthinkable – an institution going to the wall – is now a genuine, if yet remote, prospect

By Helen Sword

Academic writing: how to stay afloat

Early career academics can be left to sink or swim when navigating the choppy waters of learning scholarly writing. Helen Sword says a more formal, communal approach can help everyone, especially women

20 July

Book Reviews

Book of the week

By Randy Malamud

American Niceness: A Cultural History, by Carrie Tirado Bramen

Book of the week: Behind a veneer of amiability, Randy Malamud finds discord, cruelty and a ‘cultural charade’

17 August

Don’t Be Fooled: A Philosophy of Common Sense, by Jan Bransen

Language is key to making sense of people, finds Martin Cohen, but beware words’ flexible meanings

About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically, by Jutta Schickore

A study of snakebite gives a good overview of the development of the written scientific method, says Geoffrey Cantor

Living with the Living Dead: The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse, by Greg Garrett

Enduring popularity of flesh-eating monsters is a response to real threats, says Marcus Leaning

Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, by Joseph North

To properly appreciate a work of art we must judge it, not simply adhere to the modern paradigm of explaining it in context, contends Gary Day

Shelf Life

Birds, bees, trees and other queer causes

Matthew Reisz wonders how nature’s polymorphous perversity will win support for the political cause of sexual equality

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