Essex plans to grow staff numbers on back of student recruitment boom
University aims to create 100 new academic and 50 new professional posts at a time of overall gloom about UK university finances
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UCU must stand up for academic freedom on sex and gender
Scholars of feminism attract an overwhelming amount of intimidation; their right to explore controversial issues demands explicit protection, say Alice Sullivan, Judith Suissa, Holly Smith and Lesley...
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What are you reading? – 18 April 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Patently Mathematical: Picking Partners, Passwords and Careers by the Numbers, by Jeff Suzuki
Tony Mann learns that ‘applied mathematics’ isn’t what it used to be
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Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Marić, by Allen Esterson, David C. Cassidy and Ruth Lewin Sime
Jennifer Rohn enjoys an account that shatters some of the myths about Einstein’s marriage
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch
Jeffrey Meyers considers a new account of one of the most talented generations in English literature
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David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity, by Leslie Ritchie
Marketing concepts shed new light on ‘the first modern celebrity’ even if some threads are missed, says Liz Schafer
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Researcher, coach, mentor: the task of the PhD supervisor
Good PhD supervision is life-changing – and not only for the few who succeed in making it as researchers
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Letters – 18 April 2019
Willetts’ warning on salary data rings hollow What David Willetts proposes in his article warning against using graduate salary data as a basis for university funding, “You are what you earn?” (...
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Fourth Degree by Laurie Taylor – 18 April 2019
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Big tech funding AI ethics research to ‘delay and avoid’ regulation
Philosopher calls on universities to take AI debate ‘out of the hands of the industry’ and end ‘ethics washing’
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THE Africa Universities Forum 2019 heads to Johannesburg
Event will include discussion on how diversification of the African academy can prepare graduates for the future
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The week in higher education – 18 April 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile, by Judith Friedlander
Book of the week: Samantha Hill considers the first century of a pioneering institution whose history can still inspire us today