New chief at University Alliance floats rebrand idea
CEO Maddalaine Ansell proposes asset sharing and collaborating with business on course design at mission group
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Troubleshooter Graham Upton tackles Glyndwr University
Having turned the University of Cumbria around, Upton is now heading to Wrexham
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Edinburgh Napier University: Where being enterprising pays dividends
Work experience while at this Scottish institution is positively encouraged
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The ABC of tolerance and the ‘alphabet community’
Universities have a vital role to play in recognising complex sexualities, says Deborah D. Rogers
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Israeli business school exports secrets of a ‘start-up nation’
Lahav Executive Education offers international entrepreneurs insights into Israeli success and tactics for tackling Silicon Valley
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Social scientists who wish to drive policy should ‘think big’
Senior sector figures urge new cohort to engage, draw on large datasets, collaborate with science and tackle the era’s major questions. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Do you need an emotional well-being check?
Discussions and activities on University Mental Health Day
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Francesca Haig: fire forged
Since her debut novel sparked a bidding war, the lecturer in creative writing has been writing full-time. But, she tells Emma Rees, she does miss teaching
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Robert Eaglestone, Liz Gloyn, Sandra Leaton Gray, Dennis Hayes and Janet Sayers...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, by Seana Valentine Shiffrin
To ensure freedom and public trust, institutions must prioritise veracity, says Andrew Hadfield
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Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, by Matthew Beaumont
Peter J. Smith on the literary giants who have drawn inspiration from their nocturnal perambulations
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Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East, by Lauren Ristvet
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on the drama that formed and maintained Near Eastern civilisations
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Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education, by William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin
Ferdinand von Prondzynski ponders an exploration of how universities should be led and by whom
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The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment, by Dallas G. Denery II
Biancamaria Fontana finds out how the telling of fibs went from being a sin to a social skill
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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy, by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin
The authors’ case for a cosmology in crisis is infinitely plausible, finds Jon Turney