Academic precarity is bad for everyone, but it’s even worse for scholars at risk
The risks of being an academic are compounded by the unique challenges displaced scholars face, say Lisa Herzog and Özge Yaka
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THE Awards 2019: winners announced
Strathclyde named University of the Year as Loughborough takes home trio of titles
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Junior academics feel management ‘have pulled the ladder up’
Precarious contracts ‘damage’ universities’ teaching and reputation, panel says
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Fee cut ‘catastrophic’ for English universities, warn v-cs
Sector leaders say Augar-inspired cut to tuition fees in England would damage sector
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Becoming Beauvoir: A Life, by Kate Kirkpatrick
Catherine Rottenberg is inspired by a major new study of the great French feminist
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Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution, by Ian Duncan
Gail Marshall applauds an intriguing study of the relations between Charles Darwin, George Eliot and Charles Dickens
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Should Robots Replace Teachers?, by Neil Selwyn
David Longman urges us to pay closer attention to the changes educational technology is bringing down the line
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Find Your Path: Unconventional Lessons from 36 Leading Scientists and Engineers, by Daniel Goodman
Richard Joyner enjoys a striking collection of testimonies that should help students settle on a suitable career path
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Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies, by Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski and Toril Moi
Book of the week: Robert Eaglestone is fascinated by a bold attempt to break down the barriers between literary critics and ‘ordinary readers’
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Pension ‘oddity’ means ‘exceptionally large’ university deficits
Newcastle posts £44 million deficit after one-off USS charge, but sector’s results expected to rebound next year
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Grants for Hong Kong universities on hold after campus protests
Administrator ‘shocked’ that school was being used as ‘scapegoat’ during political turmoil
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What are you reading? – 28 November 2019
Our fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Governments need to think carefully about eliminating tuition fees
The Labour Party in the UK, like the Democrats in the US, hopes to be elected on a policy of abolishing student fees. Roger Smyth draws on the experience of New Zealand to challenge the rationale for...
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James I. Robertson Jr, 1930-2019
Tributes paid to a ‘spellbinding lecturer’ and ‘beloved teacher’ appointed by President Kennedy to lead a major memorial project
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Interview with Bradley Hughes
The language specialist talks about his monoglot roots, the joys of linguistics and why academics could take a trick or two from English teachers