The week in higher education – 18 January 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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What are you reading? – 18 January 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark Side, by Orly Lobel
Book of the week: An intellectual property battle over two dolls puts the focus on market competition, Laura Frost finds
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Academic moonlighters: a bit on the side
Those who cross distant disciplinary boundaries are seen as unusual and viewed with suspicion. A handful of scholars tell Matthew Reisz why it suits them to stray
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One year of Donald Trump: how are US universities faring?
John Morgan travels to the University of California, Berkeley, a key battleground in the campus culture wars, to assess the mood towards US higher education and the threats that it faces
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Laurie Taylor – 18 January 2018
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New year, new universities minister
Cabinet reshuffle offers universities the chance of a relationship reset before they are likely caught in the first swell of a global wave of funding reviews
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We are blind to the specks in our own eyes
Jonathan Rosenhead points out the double standard involved when a government responsible for the counter-terrorism Prevent strategy and apparently for tacitly supporting the closing-down of...
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Common ground
I am flattered to be the target of a letter from Roger Brown (again). But he exaggerates the differences between us. For example, we share a concern about the dangers of excessive homogeneity in...
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Letter: shrinking pensions could lead to recruitment disaster
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
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Hundreds of hate speakers allowed on campuses, claims ex-OIA head
Baroness Deech tells parliamentary committee that UK universities are ‘complicit’ in censoring lawful speech while giving hate preachers access to students
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Sexual assault at universities: #itsrevolting
Sexual assault among students at universities is something that happens regularly but is talked about rarely. A campaign aims to give students back their voice and to inform universities on how best...