What are you reading? – 9 August 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Academic institutions need leaders with the pack
University managers can learn from Geraint Thomas’ example that success can be won without having to be domineering and overbearing
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New and noteworthy – 9 August 2018
A Stoic history; influencers and other stars of the web; an English revolutionary; and chapter and verse on the books-artist nexus
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What is it like to take a leadership role at a university?
Senior management has its perks but it also comes with a host of new practical, philosophical, psychological and even physical challenges. Here, seven people who have lived through that fiery baptism...
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Letters – 9 August 2018
There is no Confucian conspiracy In his opinion article “Chinese counterweights” (2 August), Jeffrey Gil discusses the controversies over Confucius Institutes on campuses worldwide. I find it hard to...
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Laurie Taylor – 9 August 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Laurie Taylor – 2 August 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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India’s ever-decreasing circles of eminence
India’s downsized Institutes of Eminence programme has dashed the hopes of those keen to see an improvement in higher education quality, says Pushkar
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Scientific collaborators are not disposable
Cutting partner labs out of awarded grant budgets is a common but destructive phenomenon in modern academia, says Anne Carpenter
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Embracing the old-buffer zone
He may once have disdained older scholars, but, having reached seniority in a managerialist age, John Brinnamoor now values their ability to say what others can’t
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China is becoming African students’ destination du jour
The high cost and visa complexity associated with Western higher education is driving a mushrooming number of African students east, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok
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Appointments – 9 August 2018
Search our database of more than 3,000 global university jobs To place an advertisement please write to:Recruitment AdvertisingTimes Higher Education26 Red Lion SquareHolbornLondonWC1R 4HQ Telephone:...
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New Zealand work rights to ‘incentivise’ study outside Auckland
City of Sails sidelined, as government boosts job entitlements