Jo Johnson threatens English v-cs with OfS fines over pay
Minister to set out plans for new regulator to ‘use its powers’ on senior pay in UUK speech
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Russell Group chair hits back at ‘noise’ of university attacks
Glasgow vice-chancellor Sir Anton Muscatelli defends ‘cost-efficient’ sector driving UK growth
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Australia’s sessional staff are wrung out and then discarded
Universities’ shabby treatment of casual academics flies in the face of their professed commitment to education and dignity, says Jedidiah Evans
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If you are paid to write, you don’t own the content
No tax inspector or police officer can claim rights over what they write for their jobs, so why should academics, asks Gabriel Egan
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Will Germany’s election bring a shift towards tuition fees?
University leaders frustrated by lack of clarity on higher education in party manifestos
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When the Girls Come Out to Play: Teenage Working-Class Girls’ Leisure between the Wars, by Katharine Milcoy
A generation of young women chose dancing over more ‘respectable’ pursuits, finds Clare Griffiths
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Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism, by Daniel Kupfert Heller
A militaristic organisation that emerged in Warsaw in 1929 was accused of fascism – but were its violent actions justified, asks Geoffrey Alderman
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Will learning analytics empower or entrap students and academics?
An academic parent, a student and two researchers consider if the metrics approach is really the game changer for improving student outcomes that many claim, or if it has a dark side
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Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary, by Ronald Rael
Perhaps good fences can make good neighbours after all, suggests David Newman
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Interview with Andrew Chadwick
Digital media democracy expert on tension between control and engagement, and need for less interesting research in his field
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The UK needs a Ucas for postgraduates
A national postgraduate admissions system would allow universities to improve planning, enhance student satisfaction and widen participation, says Michelle Morgan
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Donald McNeill, 1936-2017
Tributes paid to Catholic priest who founded Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns
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China and Germany strengthen on graduate employability
Snapshot from latest Global University Employability Ranking suggests relative reputation of US and UK graduates may be slipping
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Bogus accounting and irrelevant populism cannot fill Labour’s £11 billion black hole
Andrew Adonis’s account of how Labour could fund universities if tuition fees were abolished lacks credibility, says David Willetts
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An academic’s tell-all tale that omits the day job
Books editor Matthew Reisz finds the philosopher and social theorist Jonathan Dollimore’s memoir a fascinating confessional despite its omission of his life in work