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Career advice: how to write an academic email
Typography expert’s rules for making messages easier to read elicit both praise and claims of pedantry
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Former v-c takes research, science funding and breakfast to task
Terence Kealey, former head of the University of Buckingham, tells THE it’s sometimes helpful to think of scientists as ‘lying bastards’
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US liberal arts colleges ‘less diverse’ than other private universities
Liberal arts colleges have lower levels of racial and socio-economic diversity among students, according to data collected by Times Higher Education
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Education access problem ‘is poverty, not gender’
UN plan to eradicate gender inequality misses larger problem of low access rates linked to poverty, University of Cambridge experts warn
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Global rhetoric on access ‘does not always translate into action’
New book finds that although most nations want university open to all, gaps between talk and action can be wide
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Bath head likely to be UK’s top-earning v-c after £45K rise
University of Bath’s Glynis Breakwell and other vice-chancellors are facing criticism from staff and students over pay increases
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Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives, by Leigh Gilmore
Book of the week: our distrust of female testimony in all its forms is proof feminism still has far to go, says Laura Frost
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UK could reap ‘depreciation dividend’ from Brexit
But potential recruitment positives are reliant on Home Office policy, cautions major Hepi analysis
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The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them, by Christopher Newfield
Sir David Bell fails to recognise the portrait of v-cs in a critique of neoliberalism in the US academy
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New and noteworthy – 12 January 2017
Timely lessons from the AV club; what’s on Dante’s mind; Europe’s research powerhouse; and stripteases and naked protests
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The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less), by David Bercovici
Cait MacPhee on a gallop through the history of the universe, the planets, life on Earth and more
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The People’s Money: How China Is Building a Global Currency, by Paola Subacchi
After years of suppressing the renminbi, China strives for a global currency, says Anna Watson
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The week in higher education – 12 January 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The Untold Story of the Talking Book, by Matthew Rubery
Hear all about it: René Wolf listens in for chapter and verse on the history and art of the audiobook