McMaster wins second Global Teaching Excellence Award
Canadian university impresses judges with ‘strength of its vision and plan’ for teaching quality
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Horizon Europe must be broadened
The EU’s proposal for its next research and innovation funding framework focuses too narrowly on technology, say Gabi Lombardo and Jon Deer
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Academic monopolies are nothing to be proud of
Neoliberalism is many academics’ bête noire, but it is also a litmus test of their democratic sensibilities, says Steve Fuller
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Preparation for overseas study is killing Chinese students’ scholarly aptitude
Years of slogging through English-language crushes Chinese students' love of learning before they even get to an overseas university, says Bob Fonow
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Joint legal action is the only way to close the gender pay gap
Female academics should follow the lead of women in other sectors and pursue mass claims against their universities, says a Birkbeck scholar
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Millennials: the age of entitlement
While Vieno Vehko empathises with millennials’ burden of tuition debt, she also finds it hard to respect a group that neither reads critically nor takes responsibility for its learning
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, by Meredith Broussard
Driverless cars are limited in their understanding and inherit their coders’ biases, warns John Gilbey
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The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn’t, by Eugenia Cheng
If you want to learn to argue better, don’t ditch emotion, argues Tony Mann
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What are you reading? – 19 July 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Copycats and Contrarians: Why We Follow Others…and When We Don’t, by Michelle Baddeley
What separates the maverick from the herd? Helga Drummond wonders
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New and noteworthy – 19 July 2018
What is it like to be a bat?; writing about yourself; when safety compromises freedom; a pioneer of the history of medicine; and rethinking the Garden of Eden
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Is the academy too close to Silicon Valley?
The entanglement of the university and tech worlds faces increased scrutiny following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Could joint positions in industry and academia offer a workable and ethically...
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The Secret Life of Science: How it Really Works and Why it Matters, by Jeremy J. Baumberg
Book of the week: the values of research must be preserved despite political and economic pressure, says Harry Collins
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Laurie Taylor – 19 July 2018
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