Sector leaders debate: how can universities weather the storm?
Round table discusses challenges of changing job market and political instability
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Interview with Geoffrey Alderman
We talk poverty, political correctness gone mad and the comfort of whisky with the outspoken historian
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Patricia Keely, 1963-2017
Cancer expert whose research was shaped by her experience of the disease remembered
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Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-garde, by Lise Jaillant
It was cheap reprints that took modernism from niche to popular, says Rebecca Bowler
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Books interview: Brent Hayes Edwards
The professor of English and author of Epistrophies discusses the literary works that sing out to him
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Times Higher Education’s academic holiday guide 2017
With the holiday season upon us, five academics suggest some unique destinations you may want to consider – or perhaps not
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‘Unfortunately, our referees are not up to the job’
For those vacationing in Peer Review Land, Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers some help with the local lingo
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What are you reading? – 13 July 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Laurie Taylor – 13 July 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Holiday: the pause that refreshes
Academics may see their work as a calling, which makes it hard for them to switch off. But vacations are essential for well-being – and a bit of fun
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An age-old topic: to carry on or to step aside?
When is “The right time to retire” for academics? John Gill asks in his leader of 6 July. I can see where there might be exceptions to the rule, enabling a professor to stay on, but having an age...
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Contact fallacies
Your story “University applicants ‘expect more contact hours than at school’” (www.timeshighereducation.com, 4 July) reports survey findings that 60 per cent of new undergraduates expect to have more...