The week in higher education – 1 August 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The challenges of studying the ephemeral
Matthew Reisz considers the tools we need to explore the wilder shores of performance art
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Do business schools still have brand value?
Business and management schools are highly successful in financial terms, and provide valuable income to their wider universities. But opinion remains sharply divided on how successful they have been...
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Archiving extreme performance art: where should the line be drawn?
Performance art is inherently ephemeral and can be highly controversial. But Matthew Reisz hears why the blood-soaked relics from one performer’s challenging shows are worth preserving and studying
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Interview with Ronika Power
The biocultural archaeologist talks about the lessons to be learned from Neolithic catastrophes and the ethical responsibilities of being ‘doctor to the dead’
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We must eliminate bias against researchers who stay put
Marking down fellowship applicants for being unwilling to move institutions can be deeply unfair, say Trisha Greenhalgh and Ed Hawkins
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Australian universities see risk and opportunity in Indonesia
Move fast and be patient, antipodean institutions told, as doors open in Indonesia
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GSM exit rounds off failed era of for-profit HE expansion in the UK
GSM London’s slide into administration leaves difficult questions for DfE on why it granted the college continued loan access last year, writes John Morgan
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England’s biggest for-profit college goes into administration
GSM London will end teaching at the end of September, meaning current students must find alternative institutions
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Alaskan regents back consolidation of campuses after cuts
Institution hit by 41 per cent budget reduction pins hopes on reducing administrative and academic duplication
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‘Drone doctor’ takes whales’ temperature
Tropical breakthrough represents the latest research application for the tiny aircraft
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Jo Grady: universities can ignore their staff no longer
After the pensions strike, employees’ sense of ‘helplessness’ has ‘evaporated’, says incoming UCU leader
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Trump renews amorphous free speech threat to campuses
US president’s agitations seen as having political rather than practical goals
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German ‘universities of excellence’ party, and self-promote, hard
The live unveiling of Germany’s Excellence Strategy institutions is greeted by champagne, confetti and a changing of attitudes