Modern humanities teaching: brought on by the chicken or the egg?
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Stress in academia ‘not always a bad thing’
Author of new research on dealing with stress in universities says focus should shift to how to cope better with the problem
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Interview with Mark Beaumont
We talk to the long-distance cyclist and documentary-maker about swapping pedals for academic robes
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Ray Millward, 1917-2016
A leading authority on the British landscape has died
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How part-time faculty can strive for teaching excellence
Co-editor of advice book for adjunct faculty talks about how to overcome feelings of being ‘untethered’ in the workplace
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Project tempts pupils with chance to contribute to science
Budding scientists get a chance to enjoy ‘thrill of discovery’ in research in schools project led by schoolteacher academic
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Exam by Wikipedia replaces ‘increasingly unappealing’ essays
University of Sydney assessments ask students to edit and write online encyclopedia entries
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The week in higher education – 31 March 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Latest university access policy change prompts criticism
Setting up new national outreach programme could stall momentum, expert warns
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We Shall Not Be Moved: How Liverpool’s Working Class Fought Redundancies, Closures and Cuts in the Age of Thatcher, by Brian Marren
Scousers’ acts of resilience are celebrated in a study of the city’s struggles, says Lisa Mckenzie
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Governing By Virtue: Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England, by Norman Jones
Andrew Hadfield on the achievements of an arguably overlooked figure
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Books interview: Deborah L. Rhode
The eminent legal scholar on Simone de Beauvoir, the trouble with lawyers, female friendship and living unhappily ever after
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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World, by Tara Zahra
Millions went West for a better life, but there were casualties in the human traffic, says Hester Vaizey
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Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin, by Pauline Fairclough
Neil Gregor on a fine study of the ever-changing landscape of orchestral musical politics in Moscow
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What are you reading? – 31 March 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers