US universities try barring problematic professors from classroom
Blocked from firing hostile professors, institutions restrict their teaching rights
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Oh, the humanity: rise of robots ‘to force about-turn in academy’
Malaysian historian spies signs that liberal arts’ 200-year ebb may be ending as unpredictability of employment puts paid to utilitarian education
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Two plus two could equal five for further education
Offering two-year programmes at FE colleges as part of four-year degrees could redress the UK’s spending bias in favour of HE, says Geoff Mason
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The New Slave Narrative: The Battle over Representations of Contemporary Slavery, by Laura T. Murphy
Bryan Cheyette considers an intriguing account of the stories we tell ourselves about slavery
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Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators, by Dan Porat
Giulia Miller is intrigued by a little-known episode in early Israeli history
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Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning, by John MacDonald, Charles Branas and Robert Stokes
Richard J. Williams is not totally won over to the planners’ view of the world
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The Cigarette: A Political History, by Sarah Milov
Mateusz Zatoński is disappointed by an ambitious overview of the development of smoking
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THE podcast: general election 2019 – can students swing seats?
THE’s data editor Simon Baker explains how he used student population and general election data to make some poll predictions for the 2019 General Election
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Decision time
A decade dominated first by austerity and then by Brexit has brought UK higher education to a tipping point as the election looms
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5 December 2019 digital edition
Team effort: Are cooperative universities the future of HE?
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Humanists should not pride themselves on unworldly nobility
The humanities can embrace certain forms of vocationalism without betraying their essential nature and value, argues Kevin Vanzant
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More transparency will improve the UCU’s democratic processes
Vicky Blake outlines recommendations from the University and College Union’s democracy commission, established after intense infighting at the union’s 2018 congress