Is a postgraduate degree necessary to get a job?
Victoria Halman investigates how employers view the growing trend for graduates to take a second qualification to help them land a first job
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Chris Clegg, 1948-2015
One of Britain’s leading organisational psychologists has died
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What future for women in Chinese higher education?
A paper argues that China’s one-child policy helped women to break into higher education. With the demise of the policy, could female progress go into reverse?
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Ruskin inspires Salford academic to improve virtual landscapes
Walking in the countryside could prove inspirational for those creating computer games, says scholar
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Corporate sponsorship ‘risks turning food research into a marketing exercise’
Warning comes after stories about Coca-Cola’s spending on science hit the headlines last year
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The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London, by Nile Green
Persian migrants’ tales illuminate the attitudes and culture of Regency era, says Shahidha Bari
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Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor, by Ronald P. Formisano
Danny Dorling on a study of predatory forces and questionable practices
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Books interview: Frank Trentmann
Shelf life: The historian and author of Empire of Things on Karl May, Fernand Braudel, Elena Ferrante and the enduring pleasures of atlases and dictionaries
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Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action, by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri
Organising and agitating online can be a powerful mover of change, Ivor Gaber finds
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The Paradox of Evolution: The Strange Relationship between Natural Selection and Reproduction, by Stephen Rothman
Tiffany Taylor on a thought-provoking view of the forces acting to ensure survival
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What are you reading? – 21 January 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe, by Lisa Randall
Book of the week: An invisible force causes extinctions – science or sci-fi? Nature will decide, says Marcus Chown
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For my research, I work on cloud nine
Neil Reid is fulfilling a childhood dream and working in a cloud forest in Honduras, where the natural wonders and the need to defend them can push the region’s dangers out of mind
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What should we be teaching the next generation of computer scientists?
As technology changes rapidly, how can the academy respond to the challenge of educating for an unwritten future? John Gilbey went to Silicon Valley to find out
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TEF: government under fire on link to multiple fee caps
UUK and GuildHE lead critical response to Green Paper fee plans, as Jo Johnson faces ‘high stakes’ in HE bill battle