UK HE in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ world where ‘nothing makes sense’
PA Consulting survey finds vice-chancellors worrying over ‘barrage’ of policy changes that will lead to ‘golden age’ of stability being lost
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The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy, by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz
Book of the week: From the black stuff to books, who gets the goods in a sharing and streaming era? asks Paul Bernal
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A brief history of the modern Indian university
Saikat Majumdar looks at how public universities and liberal arts education in India still bear the marks of colonialism
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UK ‘modelling significant cut’ in overseas student numbers
Directly linking non-EU recruitment to award levels in teaching assessment has also been under consideration, sources suggest
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TACTICS: the new smart set of rising HE powers
BRICS and MINTs, move over for the TACTICS – Thailand, Argentina, Chile, Turkey, Iran, Colombia and Serbia. Ellie Bothwell on a group that could grow into star players in global higher education
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The week in higher education – 24 November 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Theresa May announces £2 billion boost for UK research
Prime minister pledges “real terms increases” in investment and new fund to back emerging technology
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London student visas? New ideas for UK ‘differentiation’ emerge
Other nations’ approaches to universities on visas may help to guide UK
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Laurie Taylor – 24 November 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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What are you reading? – 24 November 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks, by Geoffrey C. Kabat
Do mobile phones give you brain tumours? Don’t ask the people in white lab coats, says Jennifer Rohn
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British Women of the Eastern Front: War, Writing and Experience in Serbia and Russia, 1914-20, by Angela K. Smith
June Purvis on an engaging study of the doughty pioneers who swapped Edwardian life for the front line
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Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia – in 100 Cities, by Alan Marshall
London as an eco-village? Treehouses in Accra? Danny Dorling lauds beautiful and bold what-ifs
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A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain, by Simon Goldhill
All the spoken and unspoken desires in one household are unveiled in a study of their prolific, and introspective, writings, says Jane Shaw
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Books interview: Lindy Grant
The professor of medieval history and author of Blanche of Castile: Queen of France on the literary and scholarly stepping stones that fuelled her interest in the Middle Ages