What are you reading? – 25 May 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Books interview: CN Lester
The author of Trans Like Me on books, moving beyond pigeonholing, and making time for Moomins
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World in brief – 25 May 2017
Higher education news from around the globe
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The week in higher education – 25 May 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Grant winners – 25 May 2017
This week’s round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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The UK, like the US, is moving to the market
Nick Hillman is right to say that the new divisions between different categories of higher education providers in the UK are unlikely to last (and it is surely shocking, in a regulatory system...
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Realpolitik reviews
In the article “Take charge to ensure that you ace your appraisal” (News, 18 May), Robert MacIntosh and Kevin O’Gorman counsel academics about how to negotiate their annual performance and...
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Supporting roles
The contributions to the feature “Access all areas” (18 May), on the problems caused by poor disability access on campus, contain some very familiar points – the assumption that disability applies...
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Collective efforts
Lord Lucas argues that “Acting like spoiled children will do UK universities no favours” (Opinion, 18 May). Perhaps, but the government must remember that it exists to serve us, the citizens and...
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Laurie Taylor – 25 May 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Appointments – 25 May 2017
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The cheapest (and most expensive) cities for student rent
Students hoping to study in New York, Boston or London will be charged the most per week for rent, a new study has found
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UK and Australia ‘among top performers’ for internationalisation
Hong Kong, Netherlands and Malaysia also score highly in British Council research analysing policy environments in 38 countries
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Academics in ivory towers? It’s time to change the record
Are scholars really so out of touch with the real world or do we need to look again at this tired narrative that doesn’t reflect the reality of modern academia, asks James Georgalakis