‘Harassment and racially insensitive comments’ mar higher education
Many black and ethnic minority staff at universities are also downbeat about their promotion chances, according to a new University and College Union survey
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Business schools ‘must challenge leader stereotypes’
Women in Leadership conference host says schools must ‘deconstruct’ curricula to combat gender bias
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Plymouth University: compensation for Wendy Purcell and others after turmoil
Ex v-c picked up £125K for loss of office despite becoming president on v-c salary, while university paid out almost £180K to other departing staff
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Amgen launches new platform to help fix scientific ‘reproducibility crisis’
Drug company hopes to provide a new home for studies that try to replicate previous experimental results
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The Public Professor: How to Use Your Research to Change the World, by M. V. Lee Badgett
Scholars seeking to make a difference are let in on the secrets of engagement, says Richard Joyner
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Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America, by Marc Redfield
Rachel Bowlby traces how a school of literary thought and its major figures hit the big time
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EU students up by over 40 per cent at some English universities
As EU referendum looms, institutions step up recruitment following scrapping of student number controls
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The Gunpowder Age: China’s Military Innovation and the Rise of the West in World History, by Tonio Andrade
It’s a myth that Confucianism kept China unprepared for war: the empire had guns and was not afraid to use them, Jonathan Mirsky writes
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Books interview: David Harvey
The eminent anthropologist on Gielgud, T. S. Eliot, the big blind spots of big data, and a very tatty copy of Marx’s Grundrisse
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What are you reading? – 4 February 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Baby You’re a Rich Man: Suing The Beatles for Fun and Profit, by Stan Soocher
A study of the Fab Four’s legal woes reveals their naivety and reads like a thriller, says Martin James
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Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries, by Angela McRobbie
Andrew Blake on a study facing up to the reality of working in the arts
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The week in higher education – 4 February 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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The Trolley Problem Mysteries, by F. M. Kamm
Book of the week: Jane O’Grady on a thought experiment that is an endless platform for exploring ethical principles
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Film and academic psychology: the power of cinema
Two famous experiments have reached the silver screen. Antonio Melechi on the relationship between the academic discipline and Hollywood