Books editor’s blog: Humanities and social sciences: why so defensive about the Classics?
Neville Morley’s negative approach to promoting his subject fails to take account of the public’s growing appetite for learning about the ancient world
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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World, by Joshua B. Freeman
From cotton to iPhones, a study eyes the triffid-like size of industrial plants, says Richard J. Williams
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The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television, by Chris Horrocks
Emily Rees on a study of the goggle-box that touches on the Victorians, the Nazis and Elvis
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What are you reading? – 29 March 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Appointments – 29 March 2018
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Richer data give the lie to poor completion rates in Canada
Following individuals’ paths in and out of different institutions shows that most students eventually graduate, say Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman
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Students’ narcissism trumps their work ethic
Efforts to convince modern undergraduates to study hard and accept their grades need constant reinforcement, say Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham
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Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, by Robert Saunders
Book of the week: After a bitter campaign, the UK once resoundingly rejected Euroscepticism, Vernon Bogdanor writes
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Claims that reproducibility crisis ‘overblown’ spark debate
Scientists reject the ‘crisis narrative’ as an inflammatory distraction from bigger issues
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UCU members to be balloted on latest pensions offer
Union serves notice of strike action at 13 universities to begin on 16 April
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USS strike: why I won’t join the pensions strike
Qualified actuary and academic Nick Foster says the case for university pension reform cannot be ignored despite a brilliant anti-cuts PR campaign
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Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings 2018 table information
The Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings 2018 methodology explores four key areas: Resources Does the university have the capacity to effectively deliver teaching? The resources area...
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‘Political propaganda’ banned from Israeli university lectures
Sector leaders decry ‘censorship’, but outright ban on expressing political opinions is not mandatory for now
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Shakira Martin re-elected as National Union of Students president
Current NUS leader wins majority in first round of ballot