UK university staff to vote on strike action in pay dispute
Ballot follows walkouts over pensions earlier this year
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Heroic leadership ‘will fail’ in higher education
Relying on an inspirational leader is a bad tactic for universities, conference hears
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Universities ‘must read applicants’ work to defeat impact factor’
Nobel laureates call for early career researchers to be freed from ‘publish or perish’ mentality
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London Met names next vice-chancellor
University of Roehampton provost Lynn Dobbs will take the reins at London Metropolitan University in October
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Call for Swiss to be eligible for European university networks
University alliances warn pilot could be restricted to Erasmus+ programme countries only
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Sexual abuse rife at Ugandan university, report finds
A committee investigating sexual harassment at Makerere University has called for the end of ‘rampant’ abuse of students by lecturers
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Journal trials accepting all articles it sends for peer review
Submissions will be published alongside reviewers’ comments and author responses
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Millennial scientists chafe at Nobel laureates’ advice
At a gathering of young scientists and Nobel prizewinners, David Matthews detects a whiff of mutiny in the air stirred by the pressures of a modern research career
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Western civilisation and its discontents
The age-old dispute over Western civilisation courses has bubbled up again in Australia. It could do more harm than good to cash-strapped humanities courses, writes Steven Schwartz
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A Primer for Teaching African History: Ten Design Principles, by Trevor R. Getz
This teaching guide for African history should support and inspire educators, writes Toby Green
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New and noteworthy – 28 June 2018
Are we really living in a multiverse?; the concept of race in the Middle Ages; the new Bollygarchs; the essential role of the humanities in complementing the sciences; and the reinvention of the Left
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The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History, by David Edgerton
Book of the week: A. W. Purdue on an argument that relocates the roots of modern Britain in the post-war period
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Will India’s Institutes of Eminence finally put the subcontinent’s HE system on the world stage?
Government investment will address the underperforming sector but political interference needs to stop for Indian higher education to truly make its mark, argues Deepak Nayyar
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The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries and Their Legacy, by Michael Robertson
Delve beneath the title and this portrait of four utopians has its rewards, writes Richard Howells
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Inside Lenin’s Government: Ideology, Power and Practice in the Early Soviet State, by Lara Douds
A new perspective on Lenin suggests that the power shift to the Politburo originated not with Stalin but because it was often more expedient for ministers to go direct to the Politburo for a speedy...