Court quashes college’s bid to silence OfS on register refusal
Barking and Dagenham College loses injunction bid on publication but has also filed judicial review over refusal
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THE podcast: Leading with David Llewellyn
The vice-chancellor of Harper Adams University shares the lessons he’s learned heading the agricultural institution for 10 years and how it’s preparing for Brexit
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Scientists ‘must be allowed to cry’ about environmental crisis
Researchers call for end to ‘pervasive illusion that scientists must be dispassionate observers’, and better emotional support
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Improving faculty diversity is a marathon
Steps are being taking to improve faculty diversity, but real progress requires a long-term commitment to a holistic approach, argues Lee Hedgepeth
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Business courses relying on international students to survive
Report confirms continuing decline in popularity of traditional MBA
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Contract cheating requests ‘blatant and wide-ranging’
New research finds students paying low prices to cheat on introductory courses
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Citation diversity tied to medical research success
US NIH finding raises hopes of focused funding, but concerns of bandwagon outlook
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Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media, by Jacob Edmond
Martin Dyar applauds an analysis of the ways poetry has ingeniously adapted itself to cultural change
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Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel, by Stephanie Insley Hershinow
Charlotte Jones enjoys an account of early English fiction exploring what novelists made of their naive unworldly heroines
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Why historians need to take scientific fieldwork more seriously
Much important scientific research takes place outside laboratories. The history of science can only be enriched, argues Vanessa Heggie, if we give equal attention to other sites
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Power Trip: The Story of Energy, by Michael E. Webber
Nick Norman enjoys a bold attempt to track the past, present and future of energy
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An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science, by Robert T. Pennock
Harry Collins takes issue with an outdated account of the relations between science and society
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Me, Me, Me?: The Search for Community in Post-war England, by Jon Lawrence
Book of the week: A. W. Purdue is impressed by a bold attempt to rethink the relationship between solidarity and ambition
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It’s show time!
As student numbers pass the 50 per cent mark, it is more important than ever to promote the value of HE, and counter perceptions that more means worse
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Teaching intelligence: how to improve feedback conversations
Staff must address power differential and ensure feedback is a two-way dialogue, or risk alienating students, writes Anne Wilson