Letters – 17 January 2019
Do the sums before opening a foreign branch As the University of Reading faces egregious losses over its branch campus fiasco (“‘Warning signals ignored’ over branch campus losses”, News, 3 January...
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Germany signs open access publishing deal with Wiley
Country moves away from subscriptions and towards ‘publish and read’ model
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Share of UK students getting a first goes up again
Latest Hesa data also reveal that part-time enrolments are now below 500,000
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French university admissions: the crème de la crème?
Reforms to the French university admission system have ushered in greater selectivity in an attempt to address high dropout rates. But without adequate filtering by family background, will this...
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Mobile Orientations: An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders, by Nicola Mai
Barry Reay praises an interdisciplinary study that demolishes stereotypes of slavery, trafficking and exploitation
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What are you reading? – 17 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Academic partnerships: perfect harmony
Some research disciplines have their very own ‘Simon and Garfunkel’. Matthew Reisz talks to some of those whose close and enduring collaborations have convinced them that two voices are better than...
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It is time to close the management/staff divide
UK university leaders might be bullish on the subject of institutional failure but the divide between managers and staff needs serious redress
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Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Book of the week: writers shine a light on the disturbing gap between human rights and realpolitik, finds Matthew Joseph
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Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and their Animals in Early Modern England, by Erica Fudge
Ann Hughes visits a time when relationships with animals combined affection and pragmatism
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To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, by Eleonory Gilburd
Kristen R. Ghodsee learns how Western cultural products imported into the Soviet Union allowed people to travel in their imaginations, despite being physically restricted
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New and noteworthy – 17 January 2019
Edward Said’s influential imperial critique, Alexander the Great’s long artistic afterlife, mosquitoes’ place in empire, and black activists’ efforts to ‘decolonise Britain’
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Admissions lotteries could help bring the elite down to earth
Hyper-selective universities help create the outrageous arrogance of some politicians. A bit of randomness in the process could lead to more humble leaders, argues David Matthews
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Interview with Aine Duffy
The Central European University’s new director of communications talks radical nuns, leaving Ireland aged 18 and why her role is the most exciting in her profession