New English minister signals end to ‘needless’ university bashing
Striking a different tone from that of his predecessor, Chris Skidmore says value for money is about ‘much more’ than graduate salary figures
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Small town or London universities ‘may be allowed to go under’
Sussex vice-chancellor predicts ‘variable’ approach to regulatory support for vulnerable institutions
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Visual ‘profiles’ backed to avoid misuse of single-point metrics
Report from Clarivate Analytics’ Institute for Scientific Information suggests more nuanced ways of analysing research impact
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Female students in ‘sexy’ clothes seen as less competent
Dressing ‘sexy’ can negatively influence perceptions of competence, effort and performance, finds new study
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Scholars divulge their biggest mistakes
Six scholars learn the career and life lessons of their greatest academic missteps
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Appointments – 31 January 2019
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Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists, by Elizabeth Crawford
Creativity was key to the women’s movement, as June Purvis finds in a valuable new sourcebook
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The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World, by Andrew Reynolds
Discourse has been altered only by minority groups being ‘at the table’, something enabled by ground-breaking activists, writes Charlie Pullen
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What are you reading? – 31 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practice, by Catherine Russell
Davina Quinlivan on how film-makers recycle images to reimagine the past and the future
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The Films of Mira Nair: Diaspora Vérité, by Amardeep Singh
A pioneering female film auteur receives a long overdue close-up in a book that will appeal to general readers and specialists alike, says Ashvin Devasundaram
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Books interview: Simon Morley
The author of Seven Keys to Modern Art on The Red Balloon, different Ways of Seeing and interpreting artistic works
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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War, by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers
Book of the week: the horrific mutilations of wartime provided fertile ground for research, writes Linda Maynard
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Universities must reform to be real educators
Far from being hotbeds of intellectual debate, universities enforce ideological conformity, follow rigid procedures and offer little that enthusiasts could not teach themselves. It is time for...
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Letters – 31 January 2019
Sector fails to self-regulate its ‘wicked issues’ The article on the Office for Students (“‘Quick with the rod’, but is the OfS up to the job?”, News, 24 January) identifies the inbuilt tension...