University of London agrees to end outsourcing of staff
After long-running protests, security staff and cleaners to be brought in-house, following similar move for other workers
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Regulator ‘must address’ USS whistleblower sacking concerns
MP calls for urgent investigation into dismissal of Jane Hutton as potential strike action nears
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Diplomat perceives thaw in Sino-Australian education ties
While relations reboot bodes well for Australian institutions, transnational review threatens green shoots
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Australian research infrastructure fund axed
Coalition finally succeeds in dispatching the nest egg it initiated last decade
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Workplace experience key to getting liberal arts graduates jobs
Canadian cooperative approach seen as a model for finding students looking to start careers in technology sector
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Universities lack the skills to properly investigate sexual misconduct claims
Disciplinary investigations into sexual misconduct must be independent and include legal advice, says Julie Norris
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Free higher education ruling throws French fees into doubt
Constitutional Council decision could strike a blow against expansion plan for international students and grandes écoles’ fees policy
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UAE claims world first with AI-focused university
Graduate institution to be led by former Oxford professor
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City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present, by Alex Krieger
Richard J. Williams enjoys a wide-ranging account of the utopianism that underpins the planning of towns and cities in the US
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Jewish Emancipation: A History across Five Centuries, by David Sorkin
Geoffrey Alderman has reservations about a sweeping study of half a millennium of Jewish history
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The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, by Michael Rothberg
Book of the week: Zoë Waxman is fascinated by an ambitious argument about taking responsibility for the past injustices of which we are beneficiaries
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Research intelligence: helping postdocs find a voice
New rules will soon require UK institutions to listen to early career researchers. Jack Grove looks at how to engage a group often seen as hard to reach
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Tragedy since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint, by Jennifer Wallace
Robert Eaglestone praises a bold attempt to reveal how much of our moral thinking is still conducted in the shadow of the ancient Greeks
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Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature, by Roy Scranton
Miryam Sivan questions an attempt to show that the image of the traumatised soldier was used to cleanse the American army of its guilt
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Books editor’s blog: how arts and sciences shed light on each other
Matthew Reisz considers the pleasures of crossing the frontiers between the two cultures