Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One, by Meghnad Desai
The idea of equilibrium is a dangerous delusion, finds Stewart Lansley
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Grant winners – 28 May 2015
National Institute for Health Research, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, and more
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British-Islamic Identity: Third-Generation Bangladeshis from East London, by Aminul Hoque
Caught between two cultures, six teenagers turn to Arabic to feel at home, finds Mafruha Mohua
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For PhD students, £25K ‘doesn’t even scratch the surface’
Mick Fuller discusses the changes he’s seen to postgraduate funding as UKCGE chair
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Dickens and the Business of Death, by Claire Wood
The Victorians found much profit in the grave, and Boz was there to document its blackly comic excess, writes Ruth Richardson
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The silent majority in higher education
Academics have a duty to explain why they hold their political beliefs, says Shahidha Bari
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Paying Bribes for Public Services: A Global Guide to Grass-Roots Corruption, by Richard Rose and Caryn Peiffer
M. Emranul Haque on why hard information is the best way to stop the backhanders
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New Generation Thinkers anointed by BBC
Young experts in everything from wartime France to the theme of the widow in British literature have been selected in this year’s cohort of New Generation Thinkers.
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PhD loans: the wrong carrot?
Paul Wakeling and Adél Pásztor consider the alternatives
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Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Richard Bosworth has front-row seats for a subtle investigation of totalitarian cultural practice
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The peer review drugs don’t work
A process at the heart of science is based on faith rather than evidence, says Richard Smith, and vested interests keep it in place
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The fad for extensions is cooling
The move away from overseas branches attests to the fact that such operations are hard to get right and offer no quick returns
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The week in higher education – 28 May 2015
A group of scientists and advocates for science published a letter in The Times on 22 May setting out “our support for the EU, its scientific direction, and [the UK’s] continued membership”. The...
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Fruit from the branch campuses
Transnational education helps people who want a high-quality university education to get it, argues Rebecca Hughes