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Leadership barriers facing graduates suggest need for change, including in university curricula
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Nature editor: researchers should be forced to make data public
But funders still need to create standardised data repositories for all fields, says Magdalena Skipper
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US admissions scandal: hiding your privilege is an unacceptable privilege
Elite US universities’ history of acknowledging hereditary advantage at least came with a sense of social obligation, says Amanda Louise Johnson
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End use of ‘statistical significance’ in results, scholars urge
Editorial in journal special issue says ‘arbitrary’ p-value threshold for analysing results has become ‘meaningless’
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Letters – 21 March 2019
Plan S: learned societies have a lot to lose In the article “Plan S may ‘consolidate power of big publishers’, academy warns” (News, 15 March, www.timeshighereducation.com), David Sweeney, executive...
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Fourth Degree by Laurie Taylor – 21 March 2019
All campus life is here
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There’s life in sun and shadow both
A large world-class university may eclipse a less renowned neighbour, but an education ecosystem rich in diversity can benefit all in the area
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The ‘privileged poor’: universities are far from all inclusive
Anthony Abraham Jack’s new book distinguishes two kinds of under-represented students and sets out what universities need to do if they truly want to recruit the most disadvantaged students. Matthew...
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Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point, by Gyan Prakash
Book of the week: A riveting tale of India’s imposition of exceptional powers has new resonance for Priyamvada Gopal
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Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky
Why was the Russian empress drawn to a French intellectual opponent? asks Yvonne Sherratt
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Vienna 1900 Complete, by Christian Brandstätter, Daniela Gregori and Rainer Metzger; translated by David H. Wilson
James Stevens Curl relishes the extraordinary visual splendours of a fin-de-siècle creative explosion
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New and noteworthy – 21 March 2019
Phone habits of the developing world; the cult of the cute; problems on the home front; game theories; and beggar thy neighbour
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How do neighbouring universities assert their identity?
Can sharing a city with a more prestigious neighbour make it easier or harder for an institution to realise its value? Jack Grove examines the competition
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Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity, by Christopher L. Miller
Novels penned under a fake identity speak their own truths about fiction, says Rohan McWilliam
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The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era, by Simone Murray
In the online era, authors are expected to do their own publicity and readers have much more power, finds Andrew Blake