‘Give graduates lifetime membership of university to reskill’
Rapid technological change means that higher education leavers will need to return during their career, says Tec Monterrey president
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Pension reforms: a response from the USS
Group CEO of the Universities Superannuation Scheme Bill Galvin outlines the processes and procedures involved in the pension scheme valuation
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Moocs focus ‘distracted universities from other online tools’
Following hype over their potential, online courses drained senior management time to the detriment of open educational resources, conference hears
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THE podcast: vice-chancellor pay and the 'Asian challengers'
The 14 - 20 December 2017 edition of Times Higher Education reviewed by the editorial team
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Universities would likely fail corporate governance tests on vice-chancellor pay
Pay awards to vice-chancellors would not meet the requirements laid down in the Corporate Governance Code, says Stuart Farquhar
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Rapid growth in unconditional offers raises ‘demotivating’ fears
More than one in six 18-year-old applicants now gets no-strings-attached offer, Ucas data show
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Stephen Bax, 1960-2017
Academic whose research interests were shaped by an African childhood remembered
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Career advice: how to chair an academic meeting
From faculty meetings to exam boards, research committees to staff-student liaison panels, meetings are a regular feature of university life. Robert MacIntosh explains how to chair them
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US universities battle ‘perfect storm’ of controversy
Sexual harassment allegations and Paradise Paper revelations among negative headlines
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Hidden Atrocities: Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial, by Jeanne Guillemin
Jonathan Mirsky on a shocking study of how the US covered up Japan’s biological experiments
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Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices, by Jeffrey Shandler
Giulia Miller praises a thought-provoking investigation into how we and future generations will research and remember genocide
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New guidelines set to steer UK v-cs away from pay panels
‘Spurious’ justifications for executive pay criticised as one leader claims furore will ‘blow over’
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The week in higher education – 14 December 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science, by Isabelle Stengers
The pace of scientific activity does not need reducing; it is already too slow, says Jennifer Schnellmann