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In these days of virtual learning environments, face-to-face classes promote the endangered art of meaningful human interaction, says Joe Moran

Work to encourage team science is gathering momentum, and a recent Academy of Medical Sciences report highlights key steps to be taken

But funders still need to create standardised data repositories for all fields, says Magdalena Skipper

Elite US universities’ history of acknowledging hereditary advantage at least came with a sense of social obligation, says Amanda Louise Johnson

A large world-class university may eclipse a less renowned neighbour, but an education ecosystem rich in diversity can benefit all in the area

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In the online era, authors are expected to do their own publicity and readers have much more power, finds Andrew Blake

Why was the Russian empress drawn to a French intellectual opponent? asks Yvonne Sherratt

James Stevens Curl relishes the extraordinary visual splendours of a fin-de-siècle creative explosion

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Today’s students are different from the previous generation, and we must understand that when we teach them, writes Simon Beames

Academic autonomy is too often used as an excuse to ignore suggestions from students that could improve their education, says Janadari Wijesinghe 

Ministers are right to question student recruitment practices in some universities, but restricting loan access to those who fail to hit three Ds at A level would be a retrograde step, says Tom Richmond

Life as an early career researcher is hard, but when you add being working class into the mix, the obstacles are almost insurmountable, writes an anonymous academic facing the death of her university career

Rachel Moss on how classrooms of the Middle Ages schooled boys in emotional intelligence

Human rights are rooted in the ancient concept of a universal natural law, observes Jane O’Grady

This growing but still unacknowledged phenomenon in higher education is badly in need of ethical oversight, says an anonymous academic

Treasury officials will find it harder to ignore the deficit pressures caused by subsidising lower-earning creative arts students after analysis, researcher argues

Protesters allegedly called researchers ‘dirty Jews’ and ‘traitors’ in latest intimidation of scholars who emphasise Polish role in the Holocaust

Education secretary Damian Hinds’ call for more scrutiny of decision-making behind vice-chancellors’ ‘high pay’ may lead to problems, experts warn

The departure of the University and College Union’s long-time leader has intensified calls for democratic reform, and activists could take a greater role

Negotiations on €100 billion Horizon Europe scheme delayed by East-West tensions and could be slowed further by European elections

Carolyn Fairbarn will urge ministers not to cause ‘needless’ damage to the ‘precious national asset’ of universities

This well-timed collection attempts to understand what nationality means in the territory, says Keith Kahn-Harris

Sarah Kinkel enjoys a refutation of the theory that Europe’s dominance was a result of military might

Efforts to improve work-life balance must address the significant amounts of time that many scholars spend travelling, says Rachel Moss

Failure to reach 50 per cent turnout threshold on pay ballot and exit of leader Sally Hunt must open the door for debate on future, union leaders agree

University and College Union leader steps down with immediate effect after 12 years in charge

Philip Rodenbough sets out a rule to help those writing up research dial in a balance that can pique public interest without boring scholarly peers

Claims that academics are indoctrinating their students with liberal propaganda are increasingly common in the right-wing media. John Morgan examines why such a conviction has arisen and whether there is any substance to it

Despite huge strides in the past 75 years, a recent forum suggests to Jon Turney that there’s still a way to go before biologists’ deep insights at the micro level are mirrored at the macro

The new Profile and Aitken Alexander Non-Fiction Prize promises a £25,000 advance and a publishing agreement to ‘the best debut trade non‑fiction proposal from an academic’

Whatever you think of the likes of Jordan Peterson, their use of alternative media to reach huge audiences offers many lessons, says Michael Marinetto 

Evidence from Canada highlights the scale of the challenge in preparing 21st-century workers and citizens, say Ross Finnie, Arthur Sweetman and Richard Mueller 

Using the teaching excellence framework to drive up teaching standards is fundamentally misconceived, says Matt Waddup

Liberal arts professor Dan Mathewson uses his wrestling alter ego to explore the politics of the working-class American South

Our personal environment faces profound changes as a consequence of technology, says John Gilbey

It’s not too soon to consider the rights of machines, and this timely book offers a clear way to do just that, says Kate Devlin

A history of baby-making and an exploration of childlessness; the aura of the Arctic; occupied Paris; and heavenly bodies

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Seven academic chemists give their views on the field’s health

Parallels tell us little about the complexities of scientific innovation, writes Emma Gee

Discourse has been altered only by minority groups being ‘at the table’, something enabled by ground-breaking activists, writes Charlie Pullen

Davina Quinlivan on how film-makers recycle images to reimagine the past and the future

A pioneering female film auteur receives a long overdue close-up in a book that will appeal to general readers and specialists alike, says Ashvin Devasundaram

Six scholars learn the career and life lessons of their greatest academic missteps

The idea of mistakes being intrinsic to success has become an educational mantra – but for many students and academics, messing up is not an option

Joe Biden’s first presidential run was derailed by a scandal over a college law paper. Should he be allowed a second chance, asks Ararat Osipian

The scholarly calling may be all about intellectual pursuits, but university life is not without its petty irritations. A dozen academics describe the daily distractions that annoy them most

Book of the week: resisting neoliberal managerialism won’t solve the academy’s problems, says Martin McQuillan

Migrants’ stories remind us of the paradox of a comparatively affluent Europe that shows a lack of compassion for outsiders, writes Amina Yaqin

Deborah Rogers on a testament to literature’s power to sustain life in the face of the indignities of disease and age

Rebecca Bowler on how middle-class women saw and were seen in the metropolis

Reforms to the French university admission system have ushered in greater selectivity in an attempt to address high dropout rates. But without adequate filtering by family background, will this disproportionately favour the elite? David Matthews reports from Paris

Edward Said’s influential imperial critique, Alexander the Great’s long artistic afterlife, mosquitoes’ place in empire, and black activists’ efforts to ‘decolonise Britain’

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Ann Hughes visits a time when relationships with animals combined affection and pragmatism

Kristen R. Ghodsee learns how Western cultural products imported into the Soviet Union allowed people to travel in their imaginations, despite being physically restricted