The week in higher education – 27 July 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Brexit: what are the options for the UK on research?
There are several stumbling blocks on the way to negotiating access to European research funding, writes Holly Else
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Protecting EU links ‘very high priority’ for UK research chief
Sir Mark Walport acknowledges ‘challenge’ of UK’s departure from European Union as sector anxiety grows
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Mixed Messages: Norms and Social Control around Teen Sex and Pregnancy, by Stefanie Mollborn
‘Nice’ kids are still being told not to do ‘it’, setting off a dangerous dissembling, says Angelia Wilson
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Complicit Sisters: Gender and Women’s Issues across North-South Divides, by Sara de Jong
A study of female NGO workers and the migrants they interact with examines the relationship in all its complexity, says Emma Rees
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Student recruitment needs culture classes
Financial issues are not the central barriers to increased university access in Canada. It is cultural factors that must be tackled, say Ross Finne, Athur Sweetman and Richard Mueller
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Open access monograph dash could lead us off a cliff
It is not Luddism to be cautious about destroying an academic publishing industry that has served us well, says Marilyn Deegan
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‘Flat-pack’ students need help with isolation
Providing support for learners on low-cost ‘flat-pack degrees’ is key to expanding international higher education in Australia and worldwide, says Merlin Crossley
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Swept up in scholarly symposia
It's surprising how enjoyable a trip on the conference carousel can be
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What are you reading? – 27 July 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Laurie Taylor – 27 July 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Long-distance learning: building a university on a South Pacific island
Bernard Leeman, anti-apartheid fighter and peripatetic champion of low-cost rural tertiary education, describes the circuitous route he took to Vanuatu