What are you reading? – 14 February 2019
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Not Working: Why We Have to Stop, by Josh Cohen
Book of the week: Josh Cohen’s ruminations on slobbishness and lethargy will resonate with many readers
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Where there’s smoke…the horror of fires in the Amazon
Two researchers who study rainforest resilience tell Jack Grove of their alarm at seeing the devastation wrought by wildfires
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Letters – 14 February 2019
Owning up to failure, by sex and seniority I appreciated reading about scholars’ experiences of mistakes they had made in their careers (“My biggest mistake”, Features, 31 January) and was...
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Appointments – 14 February 2019
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The toxins killing intellectual debate
The hostility pervading online platforms is stifling provocative opinion and reasoned debate, and eroding the foundations of higher education
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Will China be the new centre of gravity in world of research?
Simon Baker examines the rise of China as a research nation and the worries this provokes among some Westerners
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Extreme teaching: academics who suffer for students
Academic turned wrestler Dan Mathewson is just one of many educators willing to go the extra mile for scholarship and learning, says Jack Grove
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Opposition weighs debt forgiveness plan for rural teachers
Doubts over impact of Australian scheme after previous fee discount programme was scrapped
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Defence chiefs’ push for more control over research rebuffed
Universities ‘relieved’ at rejection of defence department demands for more control over technology they create
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Joseph Buttigieg, 1947-2019
Tributes paid to ‘greater scholar of the old school’ who was a renowned expert on Antonio Gramsci
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Interview with Rachel Sandison
Glasgow’s new vice-principal for external relations discusses what administrators can offer senior teams in higher education, overcoming impostor syndrome, and why you should never perm your hair
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Universities propose Europe-wide professional body for teaching
Continental version of UK’s former Higher Education Academy among suggestions on how to boost educational standards
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Crimea row draws universities into Russia-West dispute
German-Russian conference cancelled over inclusion of acting rector of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University
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TEF means more work but not better teaching, union members say
Only one in 10 respondents to UCU survey welcomes introduction of UK’s teaching assessment