Chancellor spends 40 minutes using smartphone at graduation ceremony
Incident raises questions about etiquette and rudeness
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University of Essex hikes salaries for female professors to eliminate pay gap
Radical action to erase disparity comes as new figures show lingering gender pay deficit across UK universities
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Universities ‘complicit’ in pushing knowledge economy fallacy
Higher education institutions play their part, argues new book, in ensuring stupidity reigns in the workplace
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Mooc model creates disciplinary ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’
Certain fields are unable to participate in ‘democratisation of education’ because of issues such as copyright, says study
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EU referendum: does UK research really benefit from membership?
While the UK is a net contributor to the European Union overall, it does get back more research money than it puts in, figures suggest
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Alternative providers: growing pains, but a role to play?
BIS-commissioned study charts rapid growth of sector and raises questions over student outcomes
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Where are the Women Architects?, by Despina Stratigakos
The building design industry continues to construct glass ceilings, finds Flora Samuel
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And The Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability, by Yanis Varoufakis
Victoria Bateman is swayed by a persuasive history of our global financial order and how it needs to change
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Books interview: David Crystal
The author of The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works on the delights of Just William, serendipity and Victorian self-help books
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Management salaries soar as academic pay stagnates, data suggest
With earnings inequality inflaming industrial unrest over pay, figures show most salaries are relatively static while top staff get more
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A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II, by A. T. Williams
An anecdote about a sandwich illustrates the Allies’ struggle to make the Nazis pay, says Hester Vaizey
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Adventures of a Female Medical Detective in Pursuit of Smallpox and Aids, by Mary Guinan with Anne D. Mather
A punchy whodunnit is backed with plain talk of misogyny, says Helen Bynum
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A Life Beyond Boundaries, by Benedict Anderson
Book of the week: Joanna Lewis on nationalism’s truest friend and the books that made him a world authority
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Should academics avoid friendships with students?
Friendships can blossom naturally between scholars and students, but are they always problematic? Nina Kelly navigates the boundaries
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What are you reading? – 2 June 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers