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Real-terms pay for UK academics still below 2010-11 salaries
THE analysis of Hesa data also shows that gender pay gap for professors remains stubborn
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Majority of UK students plan to vote Labour, Hepi poll finds
Labour has backing from 55 per cent in survey, while Lib Dems lag behind Tories after fees trauma
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‘Invisible ink’ student pays high price for cheating
Imaginative method is detailed in sector ombudsman’s latest annual report
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The week in higher education – 4 May 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The best academics make the best heads of department
Agnes Bäker and Amanda Goodall have found that academics who are happiest at work have a head of department who is a distinguished researcher. How can such people be encouraged into management?
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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America, by Joel Dinerstein
Bogie, Billie and Brando had it, but ‘it’ is a quality in constant flux, says Robert Eaglestone
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Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China, by Johanna S. Ransmeier
A brilliant study examines the wide variety of markets for trafficked human beings, writes Jonathan Mirsky
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The Essential Paradise Lost, by John Carey
Willy Maley revisits Milton’s epic poem with a brilliant study that fully engages the senses
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty, by Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider
Lisa Mckenzie heaps praise on a study that records the emotional costs of complicated household budgets
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Hubert Dreyfus, 1929-2017
Long-serving Berkeley philosopher and critic of artificial intelligence remembered
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UK and Australian universities ‘more stressful than Uganda’
First transnational study of stress in universities finds Germany’s academics are happiest
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Allow your reputation to speak for itself
Your article “Chartered UK scientists: benchmark or bureaucracy?” (News, 20 April) reported on the Science Council’s drive to get more academics and university technicians to seek professional...