Gender imbalance ‘widespread’ in Japanese medical schools
Institutions say they don’t doctor their admissions, but figures tell a different story
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Letters – 6 September 2018
Privatisation more sensible than mergers Nick Hillman’s view that “ Ministers are anything but relaxed about university closures ” (Opinion, 16 August) and Roger Brown’s response (“ Breakdown cover...
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Don’t be pound foolish over pensions
UK academics prize the USS pension. Sacrificing a scheme ‘in rude health’ on the basis of overcautious calculations would cause more disaffection
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The fragile generation and the coddling of young minds
Jonathan Haidt tells Matthew Reisz how a moral culture of ‘safetyism’ took root in today’s students, who view the use of any word that can cause offence as an act of violence
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Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People, by Amara Thornton
Mass media brought excavators of ancient sites fame and fortune, says Margarita Díaz-Andreu
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The Third Lens: Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology, by Andrew S. Reynolds
Describing the building blocks of life in terms of other structures plays a crucial scientific role, says Jon Turney
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What are you reading? – 6 September 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece, by Maria Michela Sassi
Elegant theories provide a new narrative about Presocratic philosophers, writes Emma Gee
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Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, by Christine M. Korsgaard
Kant is ‘animalised’ in this philosophical look at whether non-human animals are part of our larger community, says Paul Waldau
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Books interview: Robert Holland
The author on the journey from historical fiction and 18th-century Gothic Italian fiction in English to exploring how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination
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The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth, by Christopher Schaberg
Book of the week: Charlie Pullen on what it means to read and teach literature in an era when opinion trumps fact
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Train all university staff in suicide prevention, says guidance
Universities UK responds to growing public concern about number of undergraduates taking their own lives