What are you reading? – 6 April 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Mathematics of Secrets: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption, by Joshua Holden
Keeping the algorithms that encrypt our data secure is crucial, says Noel-Ann Bradshaw /*-->*/
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Derrick Ball, 1930-2017
Academic whose expertise spanned economics and chemistry remembered
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Interview with Joanna Read
The noted theatre director talks about dispelling drama school preconceptions, reducing tuition fees and negotiating with local gangs
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Career advice: how to write the perfect abstract for your article
Summarising your journal paper effectively helps to ensure that it reaches the right audience
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Hostility to ECJ raises doubts over UK’s future in EU research
V-c warns that European Court of Justice role in grant disputes makes UK association ‘difficult to see’
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Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists expand into UK and Israel
Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators
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The week in higher education – 6 April 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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University autonomy in Europe ‘hit by austerity’
Warnings that state involvement in funding decisions is harming institutions’ abilities to compete
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Young University Rankings 2017: a growing concern sprouts new branches
Five years on, our expanding analysis of success-bound younger institutions finds much to celebrate
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EU research funding should be a three-stage rocket
Horizon 2020 could have more success getting technologies off the ground if it does not neglect the basic work that sparks breakthroughs, say Geert de Snoo, Floor Frederiks, Peter Lievens and Katrien...
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Donald Trump will save universities from themselves
US academics might find a warm word for the president if he forces universities to become financially disciplined and sustainable, say Jose Garcia, Don Barwick and Joseph Garcia
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Are the shutters coming down on UK higher education?
The decline of a once-lucrative indoor market shows how job losses at Heriot-Watt could signal big trouble ahead for the sector, says Helga Drummond