Appointments – 3 January 2019
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The week in higher education – 3 January 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Teaching with drones: coming to a classroom near you?
Robots and drones should be part of teaching and learning, says report looking into teaching trends in 2019
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Interview with Catherine Heymans
The astrophysicist on how an all-girls school helped her into science, why analogies are the secret to communicating research, and her move to Germany
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J. Evan Sadler, 1951-2018
Tributes paid to leading haematologist who transformed our understanding of blood clotting
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Have the 2010 student protests (eventually) killed £9K fees?
Theory that the protests provided essential fuel for Corbynism has specific relevance for higher education as Augar review looms
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The REF games are even more brutal this time around
Forcing academics on to teaching-only contracts based on flawed assessments of their research is ruining careers, an anonymous academic says
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Universities must face up to the reality of student sex work
Institutions that pride themselves on inclusivity should be doing all they can to defend student sex workers’ rights and safety, says Adi MacArtney
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Academic freedom fears as China erodes Hong Kong funding divide
Dollars, not diktats, now seen as biggest risk to institutional autonomy in special administrative region
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Online ‘intimidation’ of ‘left-biased’ academics spreads worldwide
In Germany, Brazil and Hungary, students are being encouraged to film ‘biased’ professors, mirroring far-right tactics in US
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Leadership intelligence: how to communicate with your institution
University leaders are increasingly expected to communicate directly with staff and students, often on controversial topics – how should they handle this tricky task?
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Curbs on freedom of speech could damage Hong Kong’s international lure
A ban on political advocacy and remedial action for possession of ‘radical concepts’ could undermine the special administrative region’s universities, says Michael O’Sullivan
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Better university outcomes require more than ill-conceived metrics
Australia’s move to performance-based funding must be better thought through than England’s TEF, say Gwilym Croucher and Kenneth Moore