Mature students 'do better with non-written assessment'
Academic attainment of disadvantaged students can be improved if they can decide how they are assessed, study claims
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How work and family life conflict in the modern university
Academic science still operates on assumptions that have failed to catch up with the realities of today’s family lives, argue scholars
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Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent, by Brooke Harrington
Richard Murphy is enthralled by an insider’s story of a secretive profession that intensifies inequality
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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923, by Robert Gerwarth
A. W. Purdue on the suffering of populations of multi-ethnic empires in the years after the Great War
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Books interview: Susan Greenfield
The neuroscientist, broadcaster and author of A Day in the Life of the Brain holds forth on pony tales, Giuseppe di Lampedusa's Leopard, Thucydides and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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What are you reading? – 29 September 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Down, Out and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row, by Forrest Stuart
A fine ethnography reveals how poor Angelenos and the cops control each other, says Dick Hobbs
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Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint, by Mary Jacobus
Elizabeth Greene on a study focusing on the American artist’s use of verse in his work
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The week in higher education – 29 September 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983, by Tim Lawrence
Book of the week: Hillegonda Rietveld on the fierce creative energy of Big Apple clubs in the early Eighties
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Seven essential tips for surviving the new academic year
Seasoned scholars offer tips on first lectures, the ‘Eton mess’ of PhD supervision and why hobbies belong at work
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Bodies of evidence: psychologists and the CIA torture scandal
Antonio Melechi examines how enhanced interrogation techniques came to be introduced at War on Terror ‘black sites’
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New guidelines to police ‘Wild West’ of antibody research
Validating antibodies used in experiments could ‘free up billions of research dollars’, head of standards institute says
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Laurie Taylor – 29 September 2016
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