Sunderland and SOAS cuts expose market dangers, say scholars
Academics claim that, as well as impoverishing some institutions, removal of number controls has led to overcrowding at other institutions
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Oxford start-up hub aims to help create 4,000 jobs
Research England throws weight behind new innovation project that promises to raise nearly £1 billion in private capital
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Queensland enlisted in search for coronavirus vaccine
Australian university joins race to control virus
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The Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures, by Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath
Book of the week: Lincoln Allison is surprised by the amount of common ground he, as a traditionalist academic, now shares with the ‘innovatory managers’ he once quarrelled with
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Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933-1945, by Joanna Newman
Zoë Waxman is intrigued by a poignant but little-known strand of refugee history
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The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present, by Peter Gatrell
Christopher Hill considers the tangled history of migration into Europe and the complex lessons for today
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Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe, by Katharina N. Piechocki
Joad Raymond applauds a stimulating account of how mapping shaped our understanding of Europe and the world beyond
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Giannozzo Manetti: The Life of a Florentine Humanist, by David Marsh
Erin Maglaque enjoys a comprehensive new study of a central figure in Italian humanism
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WUR 3.0: how we could measure cross-disciplinary research
In the first of a series of blogs, Duncan Ross outlines how the next iteration of the World University Rankings methodology may judge research
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Degrees of influence
Mid-career learners, and some of the world’s biggest employers, are looking beyond the ‘graduate club’ for laser-targeted courses and skills
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Books interview: Karen Harvey
The cultural historian, whose latest book The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder explores the case of an 18th-century woman said to have given birth to rabbits, discusses libraries, women’s bodies and how...
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Number of researchers in REF ‘up 43 per cent’ under new rules
Big increase would represent less than three-quarters of eligible headcount suggested by official data
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Interview with Jikyeong Kang
The president and dean of the Asian Institute of Management tells Joyce Lau that being an introverted leader and a minority has taught her empathy
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Martin Mortimer, 1948-2019
Tributes paid to ‘insightful’ agricultural ecologist who applied his theoretical understanding to food production around the world
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Trouble replicating cancer studies a ‘wake-up call’ for science
Inability to begin reruns of experiments highlights the problem of weak methodologies of journal papers, say Center for Open Science director