6 August 2020 digital edition
All for one or one for all? Scholarly prizes and the fixation on lone genius
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Richard Grove, 1955-2020
Tributes paid to a ‘stellar academic’ who was also a ‘remarkable activist’ and ‘great adventurer’
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What is the purpose of prizes?
Some argue that accolades for individuals are outmoded in an age of team science, and reinforce old hierarchies and biases as ‘friends reward friends’
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Winston Churchill: A Life in the News, by Richard Toye
A. W. Purdue considers how Britain’s wartime prime minister was a lifelong master at keeping himself in the public eye
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V-c defends campus construction craze
Without ‘flashy buildings’ and IT systems, university administrators will be ‘pushing bits of paper around’ long into the future, says Monash head
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Paper on attractiveness of women with endometriosis retracted
Italian researchers behind much-criticised 2012 study request its withdrawal and apologise for ‘distress’ and ‘discontent’ caused
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Going underground: research in the bunker with doomsday preppers
Bradley Garrett has crossed the globe to meet those who stockpile food in fortified shelters in anticipation of apocalyptic disasters. As a global pandemic seems to confirm some of their fears, he...
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Interview with Veronica Fynn Bruey
The war survivor with multiple degrees from universities around globe discusses her roles as advocate for refugees and for the understanding of Africa in HE
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Spike in research misconduct feared after Covid disruption
Springer Nature-Digital Science survey reveals that pandemic-hit researchers are more likely to return to old data, which some worry could lead to fraud
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Greening: English policy agenda will ‘level down’ opportunity
Former education secretary attacks ‘short-term, myopic and dysfunctional’ thinking in THE article
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The week in higher education – 6 August 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Science leaders lament ‘insufficient progress’ on tackling bullying
Top researchers call for universities and funders to sign up to new set of principles to stamp out harassment
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GITIS sponsored supplement digital edition
Produced by THE and GITIS. Paid for by GITIS.
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Closing off university access is the essence of levelling down
It is wrong for UK ministers to set up higher and further education in opposition to one another, says former education secretary Justine Greening
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Seven principles to change the UK’s research culture
Bullying and harassment is still widespread in our institutions, and this must change, say science leaders