US universities still lead China on joint research with industry
Lack of trust and a weak IP system blamed for China’s weaker engagement with industry
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Are science stereotypes shaped by comics?
Comic strips present a rich, varied – and surprising – picture of life on campus, researchers have found, but also may explain prejudices
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Interview with Jeremy Irons
We talk to the new chancellor of Bath Spa University about censorship, Brideshead Revisited and why campuses should be a place for outrage
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Ian Bryden, 1958-2016
A leading researcher in the field of renewable energy has died
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New Cambridge librarian looks to take scholarship to the world
Jessica Gardner, only the second woman in the role, aims to strike a balance between the needs of undergraduates and the global research community
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Even top teachers ‘not recognised or compensated’, warns research
Research-intensive universities may not be matching rhetoric with actions on teaching support
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Wole Soyinka: how to detoxify young minds from indoctrination
With Africa’s campuses beset by religious zealotry, Wole Soyinka suggests universities provide a year of materialist induction to free students of dogma and extremism
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A Campus Christmas Carol
A Dickensian tale, set in today’s university
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Spam emails difficult to suppress, finds study
Chances are you’ll get at least a bit of ‘spam dressed as lamb’ this Christmas
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Is teaching in research universities actually research-led?
Study into the experiences of universities’ top teaching faculty is revealing about the real priorities, says Holly Else
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The week in higher education – 22 December 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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2016: rather a bumpy year
Brexit. Trump and his howling climate changers. A sector bête noire as PM. The TEF. Turkey. Ed Balls cutting a rug. It’s been a year, all right
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Laurie Taylor – 22 December 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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10 most prolific and most cited researchers
There is a reasonable chance that you will have come across the work of at least one of the scholars named in the table below – they are among the most prolific and most cited researchers in the...