Books interview: Deborah Brautigam
The political economist and author of Will Africa Feed China? on George Orwell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and mountain-climbing, wine-drinking Tang Dynasty poets
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Journal editors’ study claims rivals published ‘marketing trials’
BMJ editor in chief raises alarm over drug trial research funded and often controlled by manufacturers themselves
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What are you reading? – 18 February 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Vince Cable: Lib Dems got policy right, politics wrong on fees
Former business secretary urges universities to plug into global networks and emerging markets as he takes up Nottingham professorship
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Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, by Tim Whitmarsh
Candida Moss on a work tracing the history of thinkers who saw no place for the deities
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The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick, by Jessica Riskin
Robyn Arianrhod on how Enlightenment android-builders and modern biologists shaped the sciences of life and artificial intelligence
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Do writers care about academic criticism?
Matthew Reisz talks to creative writers and artists about what it is like to be the subject of commentaries and theories
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Rich students ‘five times more likely to study abroad’
Analysis finds men and ethnic minorities under-represented in international cohort
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When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
Book of the week: In an extraordinary voice, a neurosurgeon wrestles with his looming untimely death, says Jennifer Rohn
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Workload survival guide for academics
Advice on how to cope with all the work and when to say no to opportunities
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The week in higher education – 18 February 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Student loans: confusion reigns on England’s HE spending
OECD planning to change measures of public spending on HE amid complex picture on student loans
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Laurie Taylor – 18 February 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners – 18 February 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash