Last Resort: the Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts, by Eric A. Posner
It’s time to make honest women out of the bodies that rescued the banks, argues Sir Howard Davies
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Books interview: Nadine Akkerman
The author of Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain on unreliable narrators and spymistresses
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library, by Edward Wilson-Lee
Book of the week: An erudite biography of Christopher Columbus’ illegitimate son impresses Alexander Samson
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What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, by Adam Becker
This defence of quantum physics replaces one problem with another, writes Cait MacPhee
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The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality), by Errol Morris
A one-sided account of a conflict between an eminent professor and an Oscar-winning film-maker is both upbeat and challenging, finds Howard Segal
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THE podcast: Debt and the academy
A discussion about how universities around the world are turning to bonds markets to raise money
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Digital evolution: a new approach to learning and teaching in higher education
Creating a digital learning environment isn’t just about convenience for students, it’s about preparing them for the future, says Renee Patton
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International outlook pays off as Japan holds its ground
Overseas students seen as key buffer against rankings drop and demographic decline
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Call to end foreign staff attendance monitoring as data ‘unused’
Home Office says records on international academics are ‘not collated in a manner which can be reported on’
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Danes reveal tips for successful Horizon 2020 applications
‘Verbose’ language, bad English and unexplained abbreviations all figure highly in reasons for rejection
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Sorbonne unveils continental Europe’s ‘biggest fundraising drive’
Reformed Paris university raising funds for professorships, labs, bursaries and restoration projects
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Hungarian academy to draw up alternative research budget
Hungarian Academy of Sciences will ‘continue negotiations’ after government bid to take charge of research financing
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Ireland considers Dublin bid for first ‘technological university’
Minister will decide whether to give go ahead to Dublin consortium in ‘engine of the economy’ plan
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Deciding to fund the UK’s mental health charter was a no-brainer
The University Mental Health Charter will be funded by the UPP Foundation and will reward universities that improve student well-being outcomes, says Richard Brabner