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University leaders frustrated by lack of clarity on higher education in party manifestos
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When the Girls Come Out to Play: Teenage Working-Class Girls’ Leisure between the Wars, by Katharine Milcoy
A generation of young women chose dancing over more ‘respectable’ pursuits, finds Clare Griffiths
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Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism, by Daniel Kupfert Heller
A militaristic organisation that emerged in Warsaw in 1929 was accused of fascism – but were its violent actions justified, asks Geoffrey Alderman
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Will learning analytics empower or entrap students and academics?
An academic parent, a student and two researchers consider if the metrics approach is really the game changer for improving student outcomes that many claim, or if it has a dark side
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Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary, by Ronald Rael
Perhaps good fences can make good neighbours after all, suggests David Newman
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Russell Group chair hits back at ‘noise’ of university attacks
Glasgow vice-chancellor Sir Anton Muscatelli defends ‘cost-efficient’ sector driving UK growth
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China and Germany strengthen on graduate employability
Snapshot from latest Global University Employability Ranking suggests relative reputation of US and UK graduates may be slipping
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Bogus accounting and irrelevant populism cannot fill Labour’s £11 billion black hole
Andrew Adonis’s account of how Labour could fund universities if tuition fees were abolished lacks credibility, says David Willetts
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An academic’s tell-all tale that omits the day job
Books editor Matthew Reisz finds the philosopher and social theorist Jonathan Dollimore’s memoir a fascinating confessional despite its omission of his life in work
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, by Christopher J. Lebron
Protest movement against racial oppression in US belongs to a long tradition, says Martin Myers
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What are you reading? – 7 September 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 7 September 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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THE Awards 2017: shortlist announced
List of finalists for the ‘Oscars’ of the higher education sector released
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UK universities are national treasures that need care and attention
Britain has a remarkably strong higher education system that makes it a world-leading player, and it requires tending, not trashing
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India is right to reset its goals for universities
The news about India’s shelving its foreign universities “pipe dream” in favour of the creation of new domestic “institutions of eminence” (“India shelves its foreign universities ‘pipe dream’”, News...