New and noteworthy – 17 May 2018
A critique of the political class; overcoming groupthink; the father of fractal geometry; the golden age of American teen car culture and a theory of cultural evolutionary psychology
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Thailand’s universities suffering from ‘complacency’
Education minister says top-down reforms are needed to ensure better regulation of standards
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Laurie Taylor – 17 May 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Thomas Brazil, 1952-2018
Tributes paid to electrical engineer who helped forge today’s science of mobile communications
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Erasing a disgraced scholar’s output is impractical
While it is important to reassess behaviour and power dynamics through a post-Weinstein lens, it is harder to make the case for deleting work from the academic record
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Discrimination row university secures equality accreditation
NUI Galway’s Athena SWAN award recognises ‘energetic and sustained’ efforts to improve
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Chilean campaigners call for gender equality on campus
Concerns over increasing accounts of alleged sexual violence spark protests
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Interview with Ruggero Freddi
The former gay porn star turned academic on what lecturers can learn from the adult entertainment industry
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Abolition of tuition fees forces New Zealand funding freeze
No money left for universities after country’s government introduces free higher education
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Appointments – 17 May 2018
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Keep your rights
Keith Taber (Letters, 3 May) is absolutely right that authors should refuse to waive their moral rights if a publisher asks. The standard legal text on author/publisher contracts, Clark’s Publishing...
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Anti-boy bias
The first paragraph of the feature on the increasing number of women in higher education, “Why is Martha doing better than Arthur?” (10 May), says it all: “There are now more women than men in higher...