THE podcast: 13-19 August 2015 issue review
This week's issue discussed by the Times Higher Education team
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More than half of graduates say degree was not worth the money
One in 20 respondents to NUS survey say they would have been better off not going to university
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Mexico grapples with quality control as private growth creates ‘tension’
Sector needs national standards and more industry links to drive and sustain economy, say experts
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Postgraduates: what they worry about and why it matters
Government loans may not reverse decline of UK postgraduate numbers, study suggests
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The Black Mirror: Fragments of an Obituary for Life, by Raymond Tallis
A corpse is the starting point for a lively dissection of experiences big and small, says Jeremy Holmes
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Toronto, the Belfast of Canada: The Orange Order and the Shaping of Municipal Culture, by William J. Smyth
Donald MacRaild on a study analysing the movement’s influence from 1850 to 1950
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Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement, by Andrew Wackerfuss
A close look at a Hamburg paramilitary group teaches Victoria Harris something new about Nazism
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More women on selection committees ‘may reduce chances of success’ for female academics
Conference paper challenges argument that gender-balanced committees boost female candidates
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A Critical Theory of Creativity: Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design, by Richard Howells
The divine is absent in a study focused on our drive to build a better world, finds Keith Tester
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Surveillance Cinema, by Catherine Zimmer
Linnie Blake extols a study on films using the technology to tell their stories
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Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life, by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine
A biography of the late Chinese leader details his long, complex career yet the statesman defies easy labels, says Kerry Brown
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Crisis at Work: Identity and the End of Career, by Jesse Potter
Bankers swap cufflinks for cassocks in an era of reinvention not defined by pay, finds Leslie Gofton
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What are you reading? – 13 August 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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International and postgraduate fee survey, 2015
Postgraduate loans are around the corner; will they drive fees up?
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Grant winners – 13 August 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash