Amazon’s two-site HQ pick suggests graduate skills shortfall
In selecting its new bases, the massive online retailer rewarded areas rich in highly educated talent but also showed no US city yet produces enough such people
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Welsh civic engagement move spotlights English dilemma
Call for university funding to be tied to institutions’ role in their local communities
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Australian research test ‘a threat to national interest’
Minister’s intervention self-defeating, representative body claims
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Race for ‘excellence’ funding damaging science, warns thinktank
Competitive funding once helped novel ideas get off the ground, but now funding ‘excellence’ is hampering new research, says Dutch institute
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Dartmouth lawsuit alleges long-running culture of sexual abuse
Several months after college removed three professors, student lawsuit outlines years of grades and promotions tied to sexual demands
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Letters – 15 November 2018
Work with any party involves a judgement call The article “Scientists urged to rethink China links” (News, 8 November) states that those who work with military scientists in China, in effect, support...
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Appointments – 15 November 2018
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Less than half of public ‘positive’ about UK universities
Survey respondents question value of degree-level education, but most would encourage their children to enrol
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The British public supports universities – it’s time government gets on board
If not, the country’s single biggest success story could be at risk, says Janet Beer
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Academics and the fundamentals of caring
It’s easy to say academics should be kinder and more giving to students, but they already face myriad other demands and must mind professional boundaries
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Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015, by Kate McLoughlin
Victims, heroes, delinquents: those returning from conflict unsettle society, writes Helena Goodwyn
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Stories of Solidarity, by Hywel Francis
Robert Gildea on a history of the South Wales mining community that is full of nostalgia but also looks to the future
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What are you reading? – 15 November 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Universities in developing nations still need support from the Western academy
Despite his stressful sudden exit from Papua New Guinea, John Warren insists that Western universities must continue to send staff to institutions in the developing world