US social scientists must look beyond their own borders
Parochialism makes sense from a career point of view, but is disastrous for public discourse, say Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Mitchell L. Stevens
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HR departments are the pits of bureaucracy
People must be treated fairly, but endless box-ticking is not the way to ensure this, say Roger Watson and David Thompson
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University league tables should be relegated
Students would benefit enormously if only universities felt freer to innovate and collaborate, says Nick Bevan
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How Democracies Die: What History Tells Us about Our Future, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Book of the week: Eliane Glaser on how authoritarians get an opening when party elites play with populist fires
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Books editor’s blog: Bridget Jones’ lab diary – v. hormonal today
In Hormonal, Martie Haselton writes in a style that is lively, popular and confessional, but still scientifically rigorous – a bit like chick lit with footnotes
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Sums for spooks: mathematicians grapple with ethics of research funding
Mathematicians – and, indeed, other scholars – who cooperate with intelligence agencies face a moral dilemma knowing that their research could well be applied in unethical ways, says Michael Harris
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What are you reading? – 8 March 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Laurie Taylor – 8 March 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Universities must gaze inwards and then speak up
Universities need to confront, rather than ignore, uncomfortable questions about the worth of higher education to be in with a fighting chance
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Higher education: what is it good for?
Economist Bryan Caplan considers tangible benefits, inconvenient truths and wonders whether Latin and poetry are worth the effort when ‘Kardashian’ trumps ‘Shakespeare’ in Google search results
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Best supporting actors each and every one
While I agree with Fiona Whelan on the importance of university support staff to institutions, and concur that universities could do more to appreciate them, I have to disagree with the comments...
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Watch your tongue
In his criticism of Spiked’s Free Speech University Rankings, “Frankly, the Free Speech Rankings are misleading, ill-informed and worryingly influential” (Opinion, 22 February), Carl Thompson fails...
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Male mastheads
Gendered power displays do not have to be sexual in nature, as illustrated by the occupation of gatekeeping positions in academic systems, in this case in respect of research and publishing. There...