Columbia University launches new Paris institute
Ivy League institution will recruit artists and writers alongside early career scholars for its new Institute for Ideas and Imagination
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Bath v-c narrowly survives vote of no-confidence
Senate backs Glynis Breakwell by 19 votes to 16 after controversy over high pay and calls from staff for her to resign
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Budget 2017 debrief: what Philip Hammond’s speech means for higher education
Diana Beech on an HE-light Budget that nonetheless has some implications for university staff and students
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David Willetts: ‘It is clear that university expansion changes lives for the better’
The former higher education minister on why the English sector must keep growing, the ‘barbarism’ at the heart of the schools system and how to tackle negativity about universities
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Mary Edmonds, 1932-2017
Tributes paid to pioneering African American university administrator
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Career advice: how to make your university disability-friendly
Sally Everett explains how her institution used low-cost and creative measures to transform its support services
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Interview with Simon Armitage
The Oxford professor of poetry on returning to ‘exotic’ Leeds, why he’s glad he didn’t study English at university, and the future of literature
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Wellcome Trust explores diversity rules for funding applications
Institutions that do not meet standards in areas such as gender may be ineligible for grants
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Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World, by Lyndall Gordon
Exclusion from male-dominated society fuelled female authors’ creativity, says Gail Marshall
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Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London, by Angus McLaren
Clive Bloom enjoys a sociological study of why a group of rich layabouts became crooks – and how society dealt with them
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Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton, by Rob Iliffe
God was a priority for the often unchristian soul who discovered gravity, says Graham Farmelo
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From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture, by Roslynn D. Haynes
Do you recognise seven stereotypes in literature and film? Richard Joyner appraises a study ranging from Sherlock to Frankenstein
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Books interview: Kate Flint
The author of Flash! on photography in fiction and poetry, and the power of the photographic image
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USS pension reform plan an ‘undesirable’ and ‘retrograde’ step
Pensions expert criticises Universities UK’s ‘outdated’ proposal to end defined benefit scheme for almost 200,000 staff
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What are you reading? – 23 November 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers