Publishing innovations aim to highlight hidden research efforts
Open publishing platforms that bring grey literature out of the dark promise to save money, reduce duplication and speed communication
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Career advice: how to ask an end-of-interview question
Senior academics and university administrators offer their top tips on how to ask that awkward question at the end of a job interview
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Robots beat academics in research challenge
A new study shows computers outshine real-life academics when performing some scholarly research tasks
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Academics ponder being on the frontline of ethnographic research
Researchers consider what it means for their safety and careers to work in dangerous or disparaged parts of the world
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Interview with Jim Scott
We talk with the UN medal winner about the commercialisation of research, the merits of transnational scholarship and why scientists are like used-car dealers
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Helen Reece, 1968-2016
An exceptional, bold and fearless expert on family law has died
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‘Fewer women will study engineering’ owing to school exam changes
Work to attract more women into UK university engineering departments will be undermined by ‘beyond belief’ changes to A levels, senior academics claim
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Economics teaching ‘far too narrow’, claims new book
Authors suggest something has gone badly wrong with economics as an academic discipline
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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy, by Cherian George
Book of the week: Political Svengalis, not the public, drive populist pantomimes of democracy, says Angelia Wilson
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Academics urged to address Trump ‘Rust Belt revolt’
Political impact of deindustrialisation and free trade seen by experts as key to Trump victory
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The University of Utopia
Mark Gatenby considers what it means for business schools – and universities more generally – to embrace Utopian ways of thinking
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The week in higher education – 17 November 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 17 November 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay, by Minxin Pei
Jonathan Mirsky on a bleak but believable view of rampant corruption taking a country to the dogs