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
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New and noteworthy – 15 March 2018
Writers’ relationships with their mothers; doctors are people too; Hilter’s passion for celluloid; a journey through mental illness; and the birth of the world’s first independent air force
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Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat, by Jan Zielonka
Book of the week: Anti-populists need to look in the mirror instead of fixating on political rivals, says Matthew Goodwin
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Sister act: is the academic sisterhood too good to be true?
Does solidarity among female scholars exist only in the (male) mind? Are women really supportive of one another? And if so, how far does it go to redressing male advantage?
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Laurie Taylor – 15 March 2018
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