ESRC chief executive and UKRI ‘innovation champion’ named
Jennifer Rubin to become executive chair of research council, alongside new role for Sir Harpal Kumar
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ETH Zurich shuts astronomy institute over bullying claims
Professor allegedly demanded ‘superhuman commitment’ from doctoral students, allowing them barely any holiday and setting meetings that ran past midnight
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Open Access Week: more researchers are sharing their data
Scholars are increasingly willing to use other people’s data in their research, writes Mark Hahnel
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Melbourne picks Cambridge’s Duncan Maskell as next v-c
Senior pro vice-chancellor will succeed Glyn Davis in October 2018
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Interview with John Taylor
The inventor with a penchant for clocks talks KitKat wrappers and kettles
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Career advice: how to excel at admin
Robert MacIntosh explains how academics should tackle their first university administrative role
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Sylke Tempel, 1963-2017
Journalist who led Stanford courses in Berlin remembered
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Predatory conferences ‘now outnumber official scholarly events’
UK researcher who travelled to predatory conference in Denmark calls for greater awareness of problem
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Ignorance of predatory conferences means warning signs are missed
Why do smart scholars fall for dodgy conferences, asks Jack Grove
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The Little Book of Black Holes, by Steven S. Gubser and Frans Pretorius
Go with Alice and Bob to visit mysterious objects that also come in white, says Cait MacPhee
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A Map of the Invisible: Journeys into Particle Physics, by Jon Butterworth
Marcus Chown praises a study full of humour and enthusiasm that journeys to the far frontier of the known
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Tolerance and Dissent within Education: On Cultivating Debate and Understanding, by Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid
Joanna Williams on the rules for classroom confrontations that can build inclusiveness
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Recruiting International Students in Higher Education: Representations and Rationales in British Policy, by Sylvie Lomer
Aniko Horvath on the disconnect between data and policymaking decisions that allows foreign learners to be framed as the ‘other’
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UK considers offering student loan access in foreign trade deals
Plan explored to prevent ‘chasm’ opening up in enrolment from declining numbers of EU undergraduates
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The week in higher education – 26 October 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media