Monster with many heads
A study on the well-being of UK academics concludes that universities are failing staff on almost every measure of workplace psychological risk
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Books interview: Philipp Ther
The author of The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492 discusses tracing the rises and falls of empires in atlases, understanding the pain of mass displacements and the pleasure of simultaneously...
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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools, by Steven Conn
John Anchor enjoys an account of where business schools have gone wrong
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We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us, by Hadas Weiss
Danny Dorling suspects that class remains as meaningful as it always was
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UK academia ‘increasingly unsafe’ working environment
Study finds levels of psychological safety falling well short of national benchmarks, and getting worse
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James McCarthy, 1944-2019
Environmentalist praised by Al Gore as ‘eloquent’ and ‘passionate’ authority on oceanic climate change
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Interview with Gary Kayye
The professor and media expert advises universities to value the low-tech practice of meditation, and to move far more quickly to embrace the high-tech way that their students prefer to learn
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Offer accredited language teaching to all students, says report
Hepi paper calls for broad range of measures to boost ailing subject in UK higher education
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Esports model ‘could be future direction’ for student engagement
Latest Innovating Pedagogy report suggests way gamers learn from each other online could be adopted by universities
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The week in higher education – 9 January 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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9 January 2020 digital edition
On the same wavelength: Tuning up research collaboration between Global North and South
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Researchers are heroic truth tellers
Matthew Reisz considers the researchers who keep on top of the issues we most want to avoid
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OfS threatens fines over handling of sexual misconduct cases
Regulator proposes rules that, if breached, could lead to fines for institutions
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Gender wars: the emotional strain of researching sexual violence during conflicts
Anne-Kathrin Kreft tells Matthew Reisz how interviews with Colombian women’s activists left her mentally and physically exhausted – and ideologically transformed
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Research intelligence: the perils of returning home for fieldwork
Reverse culture shock is among the tricky situations that scholars may face when returning to their native country for research fieldwork, says Olga Burlyuk