THE debate: Andrew Adonis and David Willetts
Lord Willetts and Lord Adonis go head to head in this video debate, tackling UK political issues from tuition fees to vice-chancellor pay levels
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Quality, not money, should drive mergers, says funding expert
Unions should be seen as investments in teaching and research quality rather than cost-saving exercises, advises EUA governance specialist
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Europe ‘must improve’ credential recognition for refugees
Quality assurance professionals call for system to verify refugees’ education credentials before ‘next crisis’
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How will Brexit shape the European research landscape?
Holly Else considers how the withdrawal of one of the biggest players in European research could change science on the Continent, and likely national winners and losers
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Gene Adam Brucker, 1924-2017
Berkeley scholar of the Renaissance remembered
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Are rising fees bankrolling growth in vice-chancellors’ salaries?
THE pay data since 2010-11 show pay of UK leaders is going up faster than that of rank-and-file academics, but the reasons are less clear
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Interview with John Tresch
The Warburg professor discusses folk practice, emptying Milwaukee’s bins, and bargain cinema tickets
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Trump is right: Confederate memorials should stay
If we are going to build societies of peace and consensus, we have to accept each other’s villains as elements of our common past, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Feedback is a two-way street. So why does the NSS only look one way?
Being positioned as passive recipients of lecturers’ appraisal does nothing to promote the development of crucial graduate attributes, say Naomi Winstone and Edd Pitt
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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World, by Erika Rappaport
A. W. Purdue on a study that views the drink as the centrepiece of a new international economy
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Victorian Pain, by Rachel Ablow
The discomforts felt and described by five writers form the focus of this literary study, writes Lennard Davis
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The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart, by Mitchell Cohen
An ambitious study that sets musical history within the political context of the birth of the modern state never manages to sing, says Mark Berry
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Fifty-fold growth in English-taught bachelor’s courses in Europe
Study reveals that there are now 2,900 English-medium undergraduate programmes in continental Europe
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The week in higher education – 14 September 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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V-c pay: Are vice-chancellors worth their salaries?
Last week, the UK’s universities minister threatened to fine institutions that pay their v-cs more than the prime minister without a strong justification. We present three perspectives on the debate