Clemens Roothaan, 1918-2019
Tributes paid to a scientist who narrowly missed a Nobel
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Cartography: The Ideal and Its History, by Matthew H. Edney
Book of the week: Jerry Brotton is enthralled by a book that seeks to overturn just about everything we think we know about maps
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A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America, by Lance Freeman
Bryan Cheyette is intrigued by an account that accentuates the positive as well as the negative aspects of ghetto life
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The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, by Mark Lamster
Annmarie Adams assesses a revealing new life of a complex and controversial ‘tastemaker’
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UK HE demands reform of visa system that costs sector ‘£40m a year’
Sector’s representative and mission groups unite to call for change ahead of new PM’s entrance
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Call for Europe-wide ‘academic freedom defence’ to meet Orbán threat
Universities ‘on the front line’ as authoritarianism rises and other European nations may follow Hungary’s example, leaders and academics warn
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Fourth degree by Laurie Taylor – 18 July 2019
All campus life is here
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Higher education needs to be further up the development agenda
As the UN reviews its Sustainable Development Goals, Åse Gornitzka and Sidsel Roalkvam argue that the push for quality education needs to go well beyond primary schools
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Dark matters of the university
Justine Pila describes how men co-opt women in their academic agendas
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THE Leadership Summit: lack of student belonging ‘creates resentment’
In times of conflict it is best to meet students on their own turf, University of Cape Town leader says
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Interview with Aaron Fisher
From special education student and repeating a year in high school to tenured professor at Berkeley – the psychologist talks about how his life transformed
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Research intelligence: how to overcome academic impostor syndrome
Hugh Kearns, author of a book on impostor syndrome, explores why the problem is so prevalent among researchers – and what they can do about it
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The week in higher education – 18 July 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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How to win a research grant
Even in disciplines in which research is inherently inexpensive, ‘grant capture’ is increasingly being adopted as a metric to judge academics and universities. But with success rates typically little...
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US universities must rein in fees to curb rise in Republican antagonism
University of Alaska cuts are just the latest example of what is probably the new normal in US political culture, says Ben Trachtenberg