Australian ministers claim public support for vetoing research
Storm of protest across academia against Simon Birmingham's scuttling of humanities grants worth A$4.2 million (£2.3 million)
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Reshaped Supreme Court casts long shadow over Harvard trial
Win or lose, Harvard may need to ask whether pursuing its affirmative action case all the way to the Supreme Court is in the best overall interest of US higher education
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Universities’ Saudi ties under scrutiny after Khashoggi killing
Experts say Western institutions and academics have played a role in ‘supporting and perpetuating the Saudi regime’
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UK universities and firms call for part-time study funding reform
UUK and CBI back transformation of apprenticeship levy into ‘skills levy’
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More Japanese universities face admissions discrimination claims
Tokyo Medical University not alone in rigging entrance exams to exclude women
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Letters – 25 October 2018
Just how will viva rule change help women? Your story “PhD viva rule is ‘unfair on female academics’” (News, 18 October) reports that the University of Glasgow will insist that female PhD candidates...
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Fourth Degree by Laurie Taylor – 25 October 2018
All campus life is here
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Universities can’t afford to lose goodwill
UK higher education invites trouble if it conveys an impression that students and staff matter only in transactional terms and that diversity is not valued
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Garage, by Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela
Richard Williams rummages round a versatile site that housed cars, computers, start-ups and more
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The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, by Adam Nayman
A primer on the work of the ‘two-headed monster’ teases out the Talmudic and Kubrickian influences on their cinematic universe, says Nathan Abrams
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What are you reading? – 25 October 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories, by Alex Rosenberg
Do we learn incorrect and harmful lessons from our hard-wired love of narrative? asks Gail Marshall
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Liberty, Equality & Humbug: Orwell’s Political Ideals, by David Dwan
A useful critical study shows that George Orwell had a capacity for forcefully expressing views that contradict each other, says Andrew Palmer
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Books editor’s blog: it’s your work – find the words that make it sing
Matthew Reisz finds much valuable and practical writing advice in Joe Moran’s book, a ‘style guide by stealth’ and ‘a love letter to the sentence’