2 January 2020 digital edition
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Interview with Caspar Melville
The former music journalist turned SOAS academic talks about why London’s black music cultures deserve more study
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Marilyn Yalom, 1932-2019
Tributes paid to a pioneering feminist scholar who ‘made conversation glitter’
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Bias fears over Uber academic research programme
Critics claim that only ‘congenial’ researchers get access to ride-hailing company’s data, while academic co-authors have potential conflicts of interest
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New world disorder: the academy’s role in upholding internationalism
Rachel Kyte’s previous roles in supra-national bodies make the new dean of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of international relations determined to see the academy play its part in rescuing...
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Teaching intelligence: building a global community for pedagogy
Three academics in the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows discuss learning from colleagues around the world about how to improve teaching
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Australia must not pull up the ladder for poorer students
Student income support is increasingly insufficient and in urgent need of reform, says Dawn Freshwater
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Harvard teaching assistants end strike without deal
Union cites aspirational university statement as grounds to halt walkout
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Working after hours? It’s academic
Did they know it was Christmas? Research probes academic propensity for submitting work out of hours
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Who put the cult in faculty?
Academics’ battles with impostor syndrome reflect the difficulty of becoming truly accepted into the cult of academia, says Michael Marinetto
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Ministers urged to back, not bash, English northern universities
‘MIT of the North’ idea seen as ignoring imbalances in research funding that undermine regions
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A month to Brexit: how are campuses placed to weather the storm?
Latest data on income, staff and research funding show the key challenges facing UK higher education in the coming years
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Institutions must push harder to open science
Making participant-derived data available is not a panacea but, with careful support and management, it can improve reproducibility, says Jonathan Grigg
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Physicist wins employment tribunal over Oxford retirement rule
Judgment likely to reignite the battle over the fixed departure ages at the university and elsewhere