NSS manipulation claims ‘raise questions’ about data reliability
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Canadian cooperative education entices Silicon Valley
David Matthews reports from Canada on a model that gives students up to two years in work placements
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FutureLearn launches first Moocs offering academic credits
Leeds and OU programmes signal significant change in online platform’s pricing structure
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The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber
Book of the week: Academics need to hit the brakes and work to change the system they’re in, says Emma Rees
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Coping with illness: sound minds, unsound bodies
Being sick threatens employability, legacy and self-image. Two recent victims of stroke and cancer tell their tales
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Tuition fees 'force students to pick degrees by salary prospects'
Canadian academic argues people should get access to free higher education in return for their contribution to society
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What are you reading? – 26 May 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Disraeli: The Novel Politician, by David Cesarani
Fresh perspectives on a 19th-century Tory leader can be gleaned from his fiction, finds A.W. Purdue
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Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
New technology has changed how we approach the act of writing, finds John Gilbey
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Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club, by Akiko Takeyama
Joy Hendry on an after-dark fantasy land of Prince Charmings and their female customers
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Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy, by Julia Cagé
References to the university sector abound in an informative and lively study, says Gillian Youngs
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Books interview: Onora O'Neill
The author of Justice Across Boundaries: Whose Obligations? on Swallows and Amazons, W.B. Yeats and reading Henry Kissinger and Immanuel Kant
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The week in higher education – 26 May 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
A guide to ‘happy ever after’ assumes an affluence enjoyed by the girl in Pulp’s hit, says Danny Dorling
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Chinese student market: can the West weather a perfect storm?
David Matthews considers a flurry of ‘threats’ to the conveyor belt of arrivals and what Western campuses can do to shockproof their systems