The REF is wrong: books are not inferior to papers
Monographs typically constitute a scholar’s greatest achievement, but REF strategists discourage their production, says Bruce Macfarlane
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Improving universities’ image is not just about education
Institutions must be willing to meet the new world of populism and protectionism halfway, says Matthew Andrews
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Breakwell’s treatment suggests ‘nasty women’ still attract excessive criticism
The recent downfalls of Dame Glynis Breakwell and Grace Mugabe are very different stories, but both reveal some age-old traits, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
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New and noteworthy – 7 December 2017
Code-switching software, resetting university missions, and saving species from the poachers and traders
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The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent
Book of the week: A secret cartography project is a route to the past – and your house, finds Jerry Brotton
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What are you reading? – 7 December 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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‘To glorify burlesque is kind of silly’
Kaitlyn Regehr learned from former striptease dancers that what they did was not a safe, sex‑positive hobby but often a means of survival that intersected with sex work
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How can widening participation best be achieved?
Jack Grove explores current strategies for widening participation in higher education, and finds out why improving access remains a huge challenge across the world, despite growing university...
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Departing Bath Spa v-c paid £808K in final year
University defends £429,000 pay-off to Christina Slade as criticism of ‘excessive’ executive pay intensifies
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Ulster ordered to pay £1 million over ‘sham’ redundancy process
University management ‘actively misled’ union representatives and wanted to keep members ‘in the dark’, tribunal rules
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Germany edges towards brink in dispute with Elsevier
Publisher and research community remain divided over question of access to international publications
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Amid all the criticism, we must not forget the vital role our universities play
It has been a tough year for higher education, but we must not forget how universities transform their students’ life chances, says Maddalaine Ansell
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Max Planck launches women-only recruitment drive
With women still under-represented at the top levels of research, some see the rise of more explicit ‘affirmative action’ on gender becoming more common