Becoming Beauvoir: A Life, by Kate Kirkpatrick
Catherine Rottenberg is inspired by a major new study of the great French feminist
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Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution, by Ian Duncan
Gail Marshall applauds an intriguing study of the relations between Charles Darwin, George Eliot and Charles Dickens
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Should Robots Replace Teachers?, by Neil Selwyn
David Longman urges us to pay closer attention to the changes educational technology is bringing down the line
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Find Your Path: Unconventional Lessons from 36 Leading Scientists and Engineers, by Daniel Goodman
Richard Joyner enjoys a striking collection of testimonies that should help students settle on a suitable career path
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Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies, by Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski and Toril Moi
Book of the week: Robert Eaglestone is fascinated by a bold attempt to break down the barriers between literary critics and ‘ordinary readers’
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Pension ‘oddity’ means ‘exceptionally large’ university deficits
Newcastle posts £44 million deficit after one-off USS charge, but sector’s results expected to rebound next year
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Grants for Hong Kong universities on hold after campus protests
Administrator ‘shocked’ that school was being used as ‘scapegoat’ during political turmoil
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What are you reading? – 28 November 2019
Our fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Governments need to think carefully about eliminating tuition fees
The Labour Party in the UK, like the Democrats in the US, hopes to be elected on a policy of abolishing student fees. Roger Smyth draws on the experience of New Zealand to challenge the rationale for...
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Restrict researchers to one paper a year, says UCL professor
Uta Frith says limit would force academics to focus on quality over quantity
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How graduates are reshaping the UK’s electoral landscape
Growing numbers of university leavers, and their concentration in cities, could have a significant impact at the ballot box – and throw up challenges for universities, too
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Tiered contributions under consideration with USS row at deadlock
Universities UK says some employees could ‘contribute less and get less benefit’ but academics say approach would ‘divide workers further’
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The week in higher education – 28 November 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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28 November 2019 digital edition
Framework-in-progress: Will Horizon Europe light up researchers’ lives?
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James I. Robertson Jr, 1930-2019
Tributes paid to a ‘spellbinding lecturer’ and ‘beloved teacher’ appointed by President Kennedy to lead a major memorial project