The wheels of the market can’t go round and round with all this red tape, says Sir Stuart Etherington
Freedom of demand but not supply, bureaucracy and Stalinist pay deals make progress almost impossible, says Sir Stuart Etherington
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Get to the point: John Kaag’s guide to academic meetings
Meetings are an inescapable annoyance for most academics, but there are ways to make them more tolerable, says John Kaag
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Alan Ryan - Wage differentials
Alan Ryan ponders the huge variation in US university heads’ remuneration
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Letters
REF noose round neck of academic freedomOver the summer, my department asked me to prepare a research excellence framework impact statement based on work I had done six years ago (“Swansea’s REF plan...
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Raising the bars
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education’s reach and quality? Chris Parr investigates
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Bleak campus novel revival
John Williams’ novel about the careworn life of an obscure US academic sank swiftly from view upon publication in 1965, Christopher Bigsby writes. But half a century later, Stoner’s moving paean to...
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Glittering tragicomedy
Jonathan Thacker hopes that three comedia nueva plays - combining comedy and tragedy - will herald a revival of a lesser-known art form
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Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology and Geology of the Underworld, by Salomon Kroonenberg
Alison Stokes enjoys a tour of the physical and metaphorical lands of fire and brimstone
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July 1914: Countdown to War, by Sean McMeekin
A startling exercise in revisionism leads A. W. Purdue to ponder which nation was responsible for launching the great conflict
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Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project, by Michael Hauskeller
Andy Miah on the pros and cons of humanity 2.0
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Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror, by Nechama Tec
Rachel L. Einwohner on those who stood against the Holocaust
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Hard to think straight with the wolf at the door
People tend to lose the plot when there’s not enough to go around, Victoria Bateman discovers
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Stellar mother
Margaret Weitekamp applauds a filial tribute to a woman who helped get the US off the ground
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Unjust arm of the law
Vicky Conway hails powerful research that lays bare the corrosive effect of unchecked power