Students with a history of honour-based violence deserve support and recognition
Students often overcome traumatic experiences to sit in our classrooms, and we must support them to find new opportunities, says Ayesha Ahmad
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Higher education researchers ‘stuck on their own islands’
Analysis of 17,000 articles in the field finds lack of integration between different areas of study
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Chinese students offer the West an unrivalled learning opportunity
Stereotyping Chinese students as a threat is as wrong-headed as pretending that there is no problem at all, say Kerry Brown and Ed Byrne
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Coronavirus: Australian university moves to ‘control’ spending
Other universities likely to rein in their costs as travel ban threatens their bottom line
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Michelle Donelan named universities minister as science split off
Chippenham MP appointed following sacking of Chris Skidmore
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The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space, by Anna Kornbluh
Charlotte Jones is fascinated by a bold attempt to link mathematical innovations with developments in Victorian fiction
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Inside the Critic’s Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times, by Phillipa K. Chong
Robert Eaglestone risks getting a bit ‘meta’ in reviewing a book about the failures of reviewers
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13 February 2020 digital edition
Breaking boundaries: Is interdisciplinarity all it is cracked up to be?
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Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World, by Eva Meijer
Book of the week: Constantine Sandis admires a subtle and judicious analysis of the communications skills of our fellow creatures
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Bad behaviourism: analysing a psychological phenomenon
In 1920, psychologist John Watson described his infamous experiments on an infant in a bid to show that the human mind is a blank slate. A hundred years on, Antonio Melechi examines the rise and fall...
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Books interview: Laurel Leff
Laurel Leff
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Outbreak calls for a people-first response
Universities must meet the disruption caused by the new coronavirus with technological dexterity, tactical flexibility, strategic vision – and compassion
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Skidmore sacked from universities and science post in reshuffle
Boris Johnson’s shake-up ends second of two spells in post for Kingswood MP, with Andrea Leadsom also sacked as business secretary
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The Fall and Rise of Social Housing: 100 Years on 20 Estates, by Becky Tunstall
Danny Dorling is impressed by an in-depth account that challenges much of the received wisdom (and stereotypes) about social housing