How do we balance the Humboldtian equation?
What constitutes truly excellent teaching, and its oft-neglected relationship with research, are among the most urgent concerns in higher education
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Top tips on how to make your lectures interesting
A new teaching year has just begun in the northern hemisphere. Eight academics reflect on their experience of lecturing, and offer their tips on opening students’ eyes – and keeping them open
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Social Empathy: The Art of Understanding Others, by Elizabeth Segal
It’s still a puzzle how we come to care about groups different from us, says Constantine Sandis
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Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills, by David Shulman
David Katz on a compelling and brutally honest memoir of a Jewish peace activist with Ta’ayush, an organisation that works with Palestinians in the West Bank
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Books interview: Alan Wolfe
The political scientist and author of The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity on fictional fascinations, mature reflections and dancing to the music of Powell
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What’s love got to do with it? Beyond desire and consent
Intimate teacher-student relationships must be off-limits even if consent is not an issue, says Agnieszka Piotrowska – who has personal experience of student vulnerability in such asymmetrical...
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The Image of Christ in Russian Literature, by John Givens
Margarita Vaysman finds out why Russian writers use negative images of Christ to explore religion
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Literary Studies Deconstructed: A Polemic, by Catherine Butler
Richard Bradford shares an author’s infuriation that the ‘mongrel subject’ of literary studies fails to reflect real-life talk about literature
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What are you reading? – 18 October 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper, by Helen Parr
Book of the week: A. W. Purdue finds a work that combines military and social history to be gripping and poignant
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Australia’s funding golden age ‘giving way to era of hostility’
The animosity towards higher education seen in the UK is likely to head Down Under, vice-chancellor warns
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Letters – 18 October 2018
Implementation, not intent, is flaw with REF Three scholars have argued that the research excellence framework’s reliance on hasty peer review by generalists limited sample size and accuracy (“The...
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Appointments – 18 October 2018
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European university funding ‘stuck in austerity mode’
Many countries on continent have not repaired cuts made during financial crisis, despite economic growth
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The week in higher education – 18 October 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media