The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide, by Michael E. Hobart
An original book about the changes to arts and technology reaches a disappointing conclusion, finds Scott Mandelbrote
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What are you reading? – 9 August 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Academic institutions need leaders with the pack
University managers can learn from Geraint Thomas’ example that success can be won without having to be domineering and overbearing
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New and noteworthy – 9 August 2018
A Stoic history; influencers and other stars of the web; an English revolutionary; and chapter and verse on the books-artist nexus
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What is it like to take a leadership role at a university?
Senior management has its perks but it also comes with a host of new practical, philosophical, psychological and even physical challenges. Here, seven people who have lived through that fiery baptism...
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Letters – 9 August 2018
There is no Confucian conspiracy In his opinion article “Chinese counterweights” (2 August), Jeffrey Gil discusses the controversies over Confucius Institutes on campuses worldwide. I find it hard to...
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Laurie Taylor – 9 August 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Appointments – 9 August 2018
Search our database of more than 3,000 global university jobs To place an advertisement please write to:Recruitment AdvertisingTimes Higher Education26 Red Lion SquareHolbornLondonWC1R 4HQ Telephone:...
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New Zealand work rights to ‘incentivise’ study outside Auckland
City of Sails sidelined, as government boosts job entitlements
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German and Swedish libraries shrug off Elsevier shutdown
No sign of breakthrough as boycott yet to have significant impact on publisher
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Russell Group attacks ‘short-term’ approach to monitoring access
Experts express concern that call for five-year access agreements is a ‘distraction technique’
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Unconditional offers limit students’ education choices
A guaranteed offer of a place on a degree course gives students peace of mind, but it also means they are unlikely to make considered decisions about their most appropriate future path, argues Jane...
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Women ‘systematically excluded’ from Japanese medical school
Females out, bureaucrat’s son in as Tokyo Medical University rigs entrance scores