The week in higher education – 1 June 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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A net tuition bill should land a bigger catch
A student funding system in Ontario that brings together sources of financial help will be watched closely by other provinces seeking to increase access, says Glen Jones
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Profit must not pervert education
Purdue University’s controversial acquisition of Kaplan University reflects the failure of for-profit education. But, under Trump, it may have an unwelcome resurgence, warns Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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The art of hiring female leaders
Higher education could learn a lot from the arts sector about recruiting senior women. Part-time roles and job-shares could be game-changers, says Joanna Read
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Swedish academia is no meritocracy
Unadvertised positions and favouritism 'commonplaces in Swedish academic hiring'
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New and noteworthy – 1 June 2017
Financial gain with Jain; Europe’s challenge; demographic engineering in the Middle East; and our many millions of microscopic family members
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Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe, by Richard Ivan Jobs
Book of the week: Richard Larschan traces the steps of the young tourists who forged a borderless post-war identity
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Of monsters and mentors: PhD disasters, and how to avoid them
Despite all that’s been done to improve doctoral study, horror stories keep coming. Here three students relate PhD nightmares while two academics advise on how to ensure a successful supervision
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What are you reading? – 1 June 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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General election 2017: 54% backing for Labour in THE poll
Tories backed by just 7 per cent of UK university staff responding to survey
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Why the ‘leftward lean’ in UK universities matters
John Morgan looks at the ‘culture wars’ approach to universities emerging on the Right, and the counter-arguments
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Laurie Taylor – 1 June 2017
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PhD supervision: give and you shall receive
Terrible tales attest that some see this activity as a nuisance or worse, rather than as something that can benefit supervisor as much as student, says John Gill
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Profit paints art out of picture at Falmouth
On 22 May, a collective of students, alumni, staff, past colleagues and political activists delivered two petitions to Falmouth University calling on it to abort its decision to scrap two of its most...