‘New elite’ emerges as UK ranking combines TEF and REF
Architects of merged league table say results show how old hierarchies are outdated, but pre-92 institutions still dominate
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Demand for 300K new university places ‘threatens uncapped system’
Hepi report warns that surge in youth population and higher participation will add to government’s funding headache in England
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A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War, by Patricia Fara
More heroic hidden figures are saluted in a timely study reflecting on equality today, says June Purvis
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Transgender Children and Young People: Born In Your Own Body, edited by Heather Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore
The messages of this edited collection are bold but are the contributors the silenced minority, asks Rachel Pain
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Stand Up Straight!: A History of Posture, by Sander L. Gilman
People link upright bearing with positive traits and slouch with sloth – and worse, Louisa Yates finds
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Readers’ Liberation, by Jonathan Rose
Helena Goodwyn wishes for more novel arguments in this prescription to remedy people’s literary lacunae
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The week in higher education – 15 March 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Martin Luther King inspires university workplace critique
Research fellowship will explore how the US civil rights leader’s work could improve relations between academics and administrators
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Irish higher education embraces the system
The Republic of Ireland’s embrace of differentiated national missions for institutions offers international lessons, says Ellen Hazelkorn
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For Russians, ethics committees are just another form of stultifying bureaucracy
Social scientists’ scepticism about research oversight also relates to the curiously bad press it gets in Western literature, writes Katarzyna Kaczmarska
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Universities must become the Googles and Amazons of public life
To survive, UK universities must think far beyond educational products and their own narrow institutional interests, says Mike Boxall
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Book-smart is not enough. Students must be world-smart, too
Universities must become more accessible and engaged if they are to thrive in the technological future, says Feridun Hamdullahpur
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What are you reading? – 15 March 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The transformative effect of university-level learning inside prisons
Prisoners rarely get tertiary lessons, let alone have undergraduates study alongside them, but the results can be profound. Helen Lock reports