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Why hiring academics should not be left to other academics
Decisions based on gossip and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic
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Futurelearn plans Moocs for mobiles
UK-based provider is readying itself for launch in the autumn
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‘Unijam’ strikes mass chord at University of South Australia
New v-c aims to crowdsource strategy via online meet-up
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Take the rough with the smooth
Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour
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The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique by Philip Lieberman
Kerstin Hoge probes an account of mental creativity that takes no prisoners
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‘Something new in freedom’
Alastair Bonnett visits Lincoln’s Social Science Centre, a cooperative, free university attempting to build a different kind of knowledge economy
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What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts
Fiona Reid on the military life’s inherent brutality
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Psychiatry’s cause for anxiety
Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness, Tom Burns tells Matthew Reisz
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Brian Sewell: Every picture tells a history
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum, argues Brian Sewell
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Unbridled success: Germany’s fee foes claim victory
Less than 10 years since their introduction, tuition fees will soon disappear from the country. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
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Campus round-up - 23 May 2013
Creature comfortsAn animal-obsessed artist will step into character as “Mrs Panda Head” when she gives a live performance at a university show for aspiring artists. Mary Beth Quigley has created a...
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News in brief - 23 May 2013
AustraliaMedia students try to keep it realAn Australian university launched an investigation after it emerged that students had been assigned to plant fake stories in a rival institution’s student...
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Accelerated learning
“Art is long, life is short,” goes the old saying. Scholarship and scientific research suffer much the same condition. They are long. But art, scholarship and scientific research no longer struggle...