What blockchain technology could mean for universities
Advocates say that the technology will cut out degree fraud – but could it actually help to fracture universities?
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V-cs’ social media silence ‘misses huge opportunity’
Just one leader of a top 10 UK university has a Twitter account, report reveals
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Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English, by Janet Sorensen
The speech of the lower classes won acceptance only after a make-over, finds Elspeth Jajdelska
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Think Like an Anthropologist, by Matthew Engelke
This brave book attempts to show that social anthropology and social anthropologists can offer insights into today’s world and also point to solutions, says Simon Underdown
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Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State, by Chris Renwick
Fred Inglis travels the bumpy road from Victorian workhouse to the modern British benefits system
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Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain, by Clair Wills
Panikos Panayi follows the struggles and achievements of those who made this country their home amid difficult circumstances
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New LSE director’s four-point plan to restore trust in academy
Universities must communicate better if they are to avoid being presented as part of a ‘distant and malevolent elite’, says Dame Minouche Shafik
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The week in higher education – 31 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Robert Ferguson, 1942-2017
Academic whose writing fused law and literature remembered
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Trump tornado must not blow Canadian reconciliation off course
Universities should play a key role in teaching Canadians about their nation’s racist past and the possible ways to redress it, says Glen Jones
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Bland peer review needs a pinch of salt
Wise and honourable assessors of grant applications must be allowed to use their discretion, says Sui Huang
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Spanish curricula must move on from the 19th century
The conservatism of Spain’s universities and employers is damaging the nation’s future, says Samuel Martín-Barbero
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Giving and receiving feedback needs to be taught
The difficulty of introducing student feedback in Papua New Guinea casts light on more general problems, says John Warren
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‘Never knowingly relevant’: Melvyn Bragg’s recipe for the success of In Our Time
The radio show In Our Time is a sort of academic seminar on the airwaves. Its presenter tells Matthew Reisz about bringing scholars to the public, and the risks UK academia faces