Inquiry to tackle gender imbalance among South African v-cs
Universities South Africa to investigate why there are so few women in the top roles in higher education
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New boost for preprints after acceptance by ERC
European Research Council says move is to support open access and get round often lengthy publishing process
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Irish law to clamp down on essay mills ‘could be model for UK’
Irish bill criminalising the provision and advertising of cheating services could hit Google and Facebook, experts predict
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The week in higher education – 9 August 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Giant’s Causeway inspires building at University College Dublin
Landmark architectural project for campus will echo one of Ireland’s most striking natural phenomena
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The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis, by Martha C. Nussbaum
Book of the week: Not trusting fellow citizens to vote erodes the foundation of polity, writes John Shand
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Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales, by Jill Francis
Guilt grew as green spaces became pleasurable more than productive places, says Lisa Hopkins
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Interview with John Hennessy
The computer scientist on the future of online education, seeing early demonstrations of Google, and why he wished he had cloned himself
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Geoff Whitty, 1946-2018
Tributes paid to former Institute of Education director
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Minority scientists to mentor senior professors in equality drive
‘People who have been around at a university for a while assume they know everything…but actually they need to be educated themselves,’ says project leader
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Under Imran Khan, has Pakistani higher education’s time come?
Scholars broadly welcome new government’s pledges but say sector reform will be challenging
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A history that puts the environment on the agenda
Academic Jack Davis tells John Morgan of his surprise at learning that his history of the Gulf of Mexico had won a Pulitzer prize and his hope that it will help to deliver a pro-environmental message
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Jesus as Philosopher: The Moral Sage in the Synoptic Gospels, by Runar M. Thorsteinsson
The differences between Jesus and philosophers cannot be ignored, writes Robert Segal
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The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide, by Michael E. Hobart
An original book about the changes to arts and technology reaches a disappointing conclusion, finds Scott Mandelbrote