The week in higher education – 26 January 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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No heroes and villains in academic publishing
Jeffrey Beall’s blacklist of predatory publishers has disappeared, and so too should ideas about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ journals, argues Martin Parker
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How can the academy ease the barriers Muslim scholars face?
Nadya Ali outlines the problems that impose three demands on the sector
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Is research in some countries more altruistically motivated than in others?
When it comes to big countries, more individualistic nations are more altruistic
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Universities under the reign of Caesar
As the US wrestles with a strongman premier, could more authoritarian leadership help universities battered by funding woes and disciplinary tyranny?
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World in brief – 26 January 2017
Higher education news from around the globe
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Brexit UK: when the present is another country
A scholar of the past returns to a Britain he thought he knew – and finds himself averting his gaze in despair. Felipe Fernández-Armesto mourns
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On freedom, mission and origin stories
The House of Lords is struggling to define what makes a university within the context of the Higher Education and Research Bill (“Refining our terms”, Leader, 19 January). In the US, “the defining...
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Falling from favour
Re Marguerite Dennis’ blog post “Dwindling US international student numbers? Don’t blame Trump!” (19 January, www.timeshighereducation.com). The most significant factor that has caused the US to lose...
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Let's be frank
I never thought I’d be agreeing with him, but when Donald Trump said that “political correctness…has transformed our institutions of higher education from ones that fostered spirited debate to a...
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Both sides now
You report on the AllSides Dictionary, an online effort to provide a balanced definition of 400 controversial terms, revealing how they are perceived differently by people with different political...
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Laurie Taylor – 26 January 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners – 26 January 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding