Leader - Fair-weather friends of fair access
Failure to evaluate the impact of widening participation funding - and to fight for its retention - has left it vulnerable to the axe
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Martin McQuillan warns that earnings data by place and course could become the destroyer of academic worlds
Martin McQuillan on graduate earnings by subject and institution: the Manhattan Project for the English sector?
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Aston is setting the standard for gender equality in the sector, argues Dame Julia King
Dame Julia King’s institution is tackling gender inequality - it is high time that the rest of the sector followed suit, she argues
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Open access will mean journals closing because there’s no such thing as a free lunch, argues Richard Hoyle
Open-access advocates are utopian thinkers whose ideas work only if you ignore the costs of journal publishing, argues Richard Hoyle
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Alan Ryan - How thoughtless
US politics is not keen on the theoretical, Alan Ryan discovers
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Letters
Zero Marx for Gove’s time warp (again)Michael Gove is stuck in a time warp (“Enemy of promise”, 13 June). Twenty-five years ago, the radical Right was publishing similar scare stories about Marxists...
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False dawn?
Student protests in Quebec brought down a government but failed to freeze tuition fees: what’s next for a province where universities remain high on the political agenda? Elizabeth Gibney reports...
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Fallen women’s studies
The erosion of women’s, gender and sexuality studies in UK universities will prove detrimental to the academy and wider society, argues Lisa Downing
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Hammer horror
After one epic throw Chris Hackley was a Titan among boys, but unlike the object he propelled his sporting career never took flight
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Remembrance of the last of us
Aaron Rosen is entranced by the V&A’s daring exhibition, where words and art fuse to bring a dystopian vision to life
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Water world
Jules Pretty sets course on a journey across the oceans that haunt our imaginations
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Justified and ancient investment advice
The platitude is right after all, says Steven Schwartz - it is better to give than receive
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Food for feminist thought
Mary Evans relishes this re-evaluation of a landmark work’s collective construction
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The Global Pigeon by Colin Jerolmack
Tim Birkhead on bird fanciers’ engagement with nature