Great State: China and the World, by Timothy Brook
Jonathan Mirsky applauds a bold attempt to take the long view of Chinese history
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The Quality of the Archaeological Record, by Charles Perreault
Susan Greaney has reservations about reducing the discipline’s human interest factor
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Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule, by Nick Yablon
Steven Groarke reflects on the strange process of trying to preserve a historical instant for posterity
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On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair, by Maurice Finocchiaro
Geoffrey Cantor on a pioneering natural philosopher whose conflicts with doctrine became the stuff of myth
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Righting wrongs: that’s what universities are good for
Universities should be engines that drive social well-being and mobility, but this noble purpose can so easily be hampered by inappropriate incentives
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Reliance on foreign PhD students ‘could harm US research’
Data show US has relatively low number of domestic PhD graduates, leaving it reliant on potentially fragile international recruitment
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The week in higher education – 26 September 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Toward a Global Middle Ages, edited by Bryan C. Keene
Book of the week: Rachel Moss is intrigued by a bold attempt to demonstrate that the medieval world is much larger than we tend to think
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Anne Monius, 1964-2019
Tributes paid to a scholar whose passions ranged from Tamil Buddhism to Bob Marley
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New US free college plans show pitfalls of local options
Cornell, New Mexico and Morehouse schemes highlight importance of debate at federal level, say experts
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The art of the rebound for international students
Helping students with mental health issues requires an approach that teaches them resilience, argues Frank Haber
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Is it time to pursue ‘interculturalisation’?
The international, multicultural attitudes vital for living and working in diverse environments can be developed without travelling abroad, writes Elspeth Jones
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Joint degrees can help shift national policy on EU harmonisation
National legislation can be a barrier to offering one diploma from two universities, joint degree advocate says
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Defer Macron’s dream for European universities, mobility experts say
The French president’s ambitious plan for cross-border universities will require at least seven years given integration required, experts warn
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The gruesome past of Irish medical education
Shane McCorristine considers the illicit and sometimes horrifying ways teaching institutions used to secure corpses for trainee doctors to learn anatomy