An academic’s guide to writing well
Scholarly prose can be verbose and unclear, and can obscure the point you are trying to make. Joe Moran offers his top 10 tips for writing well
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Sleeping with the Lights On, by Darryl Jones
Book of the week: Linnie Blake is taken on an illuminating tour of the thematic evolution and history of the horror genre
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‘White nationalist’ face of Charlottesville now studying at LSE
Enrolment of Peter Cvjetanovic on political theory master’s sparks debate about whether universities can consider applicant’s political views in admissions processes
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Open question on v-c pay as jobs come up for grabs
Sector observers predict that universities will take the chance to rein in executive remuneration
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The week in higher education – 4 October 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Australia’s free speech backlash ‘absurd’, says chancellor
Gareth Evans adds that ‘inherent lack of trust’ prompted Australian National University to decline Western civilisation course
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Interview with Lee Cronin
The award-winning chemist attempts to explain his reasons for wanting to create a chemical brain, but suggests we won’t be moving to Mars any time soon
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Sir Charles Kuen Kao, 1933-2018
Tributes paid to the Nobel prizewinner dubbed the ‘father of fibre optics’
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Soas to pay former student £20K over ‘no supervision’ PhD
Law graduate urges research students to ‘take institutions to task’ on inadequate supervision
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Group think: scholars assess the state of sociology
Sociology, once a discipline seen as the embodiment of social progress, is now subject to frequent scepticism over its methodology, politics and career relevance. Here, five sociologists offer their...
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The REF is perverse to ignore journal hierarchies
The research excellence framework’s reliance on hasty peer review by generalists limits sample size and accuracy, three academics argue