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Book of the week: Cheryl A. Wall praises an account of the ‘too fast girls’ who carved out free lives for themselves in New York and Philadelphia

Western countries’ determination to tackle the migration crisis without taking any risks with their own personnel is wasteful and counterproductive, the Oxford anthropologist tells Matthew Reisz 

Nation’s egalitarian culture, policies on widening access and Asia-Pacific location seen as key to success in THE University Impact Rankings measure

Academics fear global reach of new Singaporean legislation could result in censorship of international academic journals

Marketing concepts shed new light on ‘the first modern celebrity’ even if some threads are missed, says Liz Schafer

Philosopher calls on universities to take AI debate ‘out of the hands of the industry’ and end ‘ethics washing’

The Group of Eight chair on serendipity, widening access and why running marathons is a metaphor for almost everything

Deep partnerships with government, business and civil society leave a sweet taste for both academics and the public, says Mark Western

Friendly competition can push us all to do better. But when the competitiveness that fuels excellence and prestige becomes based in the logic of the market, universities lose sight of their true purpose, writes Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Richard J. Williams reflects on the hidden agendas behind controversies about ugly architecture

Tributes paid to Regius professor of engineering at Edinburgh

The recent death of politics academic David Held left Alix Dietzel shocked and guilty. Why did no one warn her she could feel like that?

Those on the ground are often able to recognise the folly of supposed efficiency measures imposed from on high, writes Peter Barry

Questions have been raised over appointment as design school head of academic who is being sued for alleged age discrimination

After more than doubling its spending since the financial crisis, Germany’s long budget boom is set to come to an end

Book of the week: Steven Rose praises a bold new attempt to explain the origins and nature of consciousness

Jörg Michael Dostal considers the complex struggles between economic liberalisation and deliberalisation in three European countries

Ruth Finnegan praises a book celebrating the agency of Africans across the centuries

Peter Goodhew reflects on the sheer oddity of liquids

Richard Joyner assesses an argument that all the major questions in the discipline have now been answered

The University of Kent’s dean of Europe on Brexit, spirituality and chatting to Jarvis Cocker

Tributes paid to ‘most influential Irish historian of his generation’

Bias would be reduced if grant applicants’ capabilities were considered only after assessment of their anonymised proposals, says David Sanders

Agreement that EU research funding should continue to be distributed according to quality is an important step forward, writes Jan Palmowski

Lennard Davis on a study of a decade of managerial evolution rather than student revolution

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The Turner prizewinning artist on being part of the UK’s Black Art movement and promoting the contributions of women

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

China’s investments in talent circulation and innovation hubs hold many lessons for the UK’s international education ambitions, says Catherine Montgomery 

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

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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Can sharing a city with a more prestigious neighbour make it easier or harder for an institution to realise its value? Jack Grove examines the competition

Anthony Abraham Jack’s new book distinguishes two kinds of under-represented students and sets out what universities need to do if they truly want to recruit the most disadvantaged students. Matthew Reisz writes

Novels penned under a fake identity speak their own truths about fiction, says Rohan McWilliam

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

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Tributes paid to victim of Ethiopian Airlines crash

The winner of this year’s Holberg Prize, worth over £500,000, on career setbacks, changing attitudes and decolonising the curriculum

Frans de Waal, the biologist and primatologist and author most recently of , on the lure of , getting inside animal’s minds and in-group/out-group behaviour in

Understanding animal behaviour presents many challenges in the field. Matthew Reisz meets Rory Wilson, a biologist who has won awards for his innovative methods of tracking everything from albatrosses to sloths

Book of the week: Robert Segal on a work that strives to restore the centrality of narrative to tales as old as time

Georgina Laragy on how common cause came to be consigned to the corner of people’s minds

Charles Townshend on a timely survey of those who never accepted the ‘peace process’ in Ireland and see the border as a provocation

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Matthew Reisz meets an expert on tracking the movements of animals which are sometimes fierce and virtually impossible to catch  

On International Women’s Day, Jocalyn Clark and Imogen Coe ask why universities have been so slow to adopt meaningful change to improve gender representation

Difficult conversations about student complaints and colleagues’ underperformance will test the skills and judgement of senior academic staff, says Robert MacIntosh

Constantine Sandis praises a superbly translated volume of epistles that swings seamlessly between mundane trivialities and profound insights

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

Book of the week: We all like to make-believe, says Dale Salwak, who wishes the author had not revealed so many secrets

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In a rapidly changing world, is a broader approach to the university curriculum needed to develop the critical thinking and creativity increasingly sought after by employers, Anna McKie asks

Tributes paid to a scholar who revolutionised study of the world’s earliest known written language

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

Tributes paid to founder of University of Warwick’s WMG

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

John Ross examines the state of cross-study and collaboration between Australia and its neighbours in the East

Book of the week: Fears that something fascist-like will rise again permeate the moment, writes Robert Eaglestone

Hester Vaizey on how regimes employed different temporal signatures to legitimate their authority