Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping, by Willy Wo-Lap Lam
Jonathan Mirsky on the undistinguished qualities of a president who wants China to ‘learn from Chairman Mao’
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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh, by Stanley Wells
The first act in an entertaining study of gifted stage performers is the most powerful, says Lisa Hopkins
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Sir David Bell, Laurence Coupe, Stephen Halliday, June Purvis and Richard Sheldon...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Alice Teichova, 1920-2015
A leading economic historian, whose life was shaped by the upheavals of Eastern European history, has died
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Q&A with Ian Jacobs
We speak to the vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales
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Grant winners – 9 April 2015
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Simon GilbodyInstitution: University of YorkValue: £1,547,169Smoking cessation intervention for severe mental...
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World in brief – 9 April 2015
Source: GettyUnited StatesSpike in cheating claimsStanford University’s provost has written to academics to warn them about an “unusually high number of troubling allegations of academic dishonesty”...
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News in brief – 9 April 2015
Source: UoNannesmartThe Russell GroupNew broom at mission groupThe Russell Group’s next chair will be Sir David Greenaway, vice-chancellor at the University of Nottingham. Sir David will take over at...
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Dem bones, dem bones
Source: GettyScooped: an unfortunate marketing strategyOne of our leading academic contenders for involuntary redundancy, Ted Odgers of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, has apologised...
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The week in higher education – 9 April 2015
The cancelling of a conference on Israel that was due to take place at the University of Southampton this month has prompted uproar among many academics, who say that the decision is stifling freedom...
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A growth spurt with challenges
The uncapping of student numbers may not result in a surge across the sector - but things are changing all the same
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Diversity in boardroom
The editorial in last week’s Times Higher Education was quite simply excellent (“It’s not just bad, it’s wrong”, 2 April). I am delighted that it recognised the unfairness and lack of gender equality...
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Zeroing in on zero hours
Ed Miliband should be applauded for his pledge to provide workers with a proper contract if they work regular hours on a zero-hours contract for 12 weeks. Casualisation is higher education’s dirty...
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If it’s broke, fix it
Fred Inglis claims that “nobody provides any account of what to do, of how to prevent an ideologically demented and morally unprincipled government and its stooges from turning an internationally...