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Do great minds think alike? The THE/Lindau Nobel Laureates Survey
We share what 50 Nobel prizewinners think about issues facing science, universities and the world, from populist politics and researcher mobility, to artificial intelligence and threats to humankind
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Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English, by Janet Sorensen
The speech of the lower classes won acceptance only after a make-over, finds Elspeth Jajdelska
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Think Like an Anthropologist, by Matthew Engelke
This brave book attempts to show that social anthropology and social anthropologists can offer insights into today’s world and also point to solutions, says Simon Underdown
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Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State, by Chris Renwick
Fred Inglis travels the bumpy road from Victorian workhouse to the modern British benefits system
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Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain, by Clair Wills
Panikos Panayi follows the struggles and achievements of those who made this country their home amid difficult circumstances
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New LSE director’s four-point plan to restore trust in academy
Universities must communicate better if they are to avoid being presented as part of a ‘distant and malevolent elite’, says Dame Minouche Shafik
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The week in higher education – 31 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Interview with Christian Edwards
The ex-footballer explains why his PhD means more than his Wales cap, and how his Cardiff Met team reached the verge of Europe
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What blockchain technology could mean for universities
Advocates say that the technology will cut out degree fraud – but could it actually help to fracture universities?
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V-cs’ social media silence ‘misses huge opportunity’
Just one leader of a top 10 UK university has a Twitter account, report reveals
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Populism and polarisation ‘threaten science’, Nobel laureates say
Times Higher Education poll of globe's greatest minds highlights threat of divided politics to academia and research
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‘Never knowingly relevant’: Melvyn Bragg’s recipe for the success of In Our Time
The radio show In Our Time is a sort of academic seminar on the airwaves. Its presenter tells Matthew Reisz about bringing scholars to the public, and the risks UK academia faces