The Attention Merchants: The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads, by Tim Wu
Our advertising questions should focus on where and when we are targeted, says Ciaran Driver
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Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded, by Mustafa Dikeç
Lisa Mckenzie on a study about taking one of our strongest emotions to the streets
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How can scholars tackle the rise of Chinese censorship in the West?
There is growing concern that China is trying to silence its critics in the West, with academic publishers a particular target. Tao Zhang considers the consequences for scholarly freedom – and what...
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Journeys from the Abyss: The Holocaust and forced migration from the 1880s to the present, by Tony Kushner
Book of the week: Anna Boucher commends an analysis of the experiences of different generations of migrants
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What are you reading? – 4 January 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 4 January 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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REF cycles ‘force academics to rush out poorer quality research’
Study finds 35 per cent increase in publications ahead of submission deadline, but 12 per cent decline in citations
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UK universities plan German links to weather Brexit storm
Partnerships should allow access to a wider pool of research grants, institutions hope
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Unsettled status is too high a price for Brexit
Home Office threats to deport her may have been an ‘unfortunate error’, but Eva Johanna Holmberg is still wary about the future
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Interview with Patrick Awuah
The Ghanaian university president on medieval poetry, good leadership and Goethe
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Rock school awarded more student loan funding than LSE
Private equity-backed music institute trebled number of students with taxpayer-backed loans to net £24.4 million in 2016-17, new figures show
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New year predictions: what does 2018 have in store for universities?
After the twin shocks of Brexit and Trump, Patrick McGhee can only guess what the next 12 months will bring. Are you ready for peer-reviewed tweets, TEF results determined by University Challenge,...
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Laurie Taylor – 4 January 2018
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