Paris-Saclay: a mega-university with ambitions to match
Dominique Vernay, the institution’s president, talks to Jack Grove about why 19 French institutions are stronger as one
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Online research: the dangers
Academics face issues around privacy and identity in the digital world
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Varying degrees of academic freedom
Context and motive are key to concerns about limits on freedom within and without the academy
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What’s in a grade?
Students need to understand assessment criteria in order to spot weaknesses in their own work, says David Carless
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Brian Cantor: why I took the Bradford v-c job
The former leader of the University of York on how his new role’s focus on technology made the decision an easy one
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The art of wedding photography
Practitioners of the genre are undervalued in the selfie era, argues Sally Feldman
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Force Majeure, directed by Ruben Östlund
The repercussions of a man’s cowardice at a French ski resort entertain Duncan Wu in a most uncomfortable way
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Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English, by Michael D. Gordin
Richard Joyner on the dwindling role of German and Russian in the communication of research
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Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism and Europe’s Early Modern World, by Benjamin Schmidt
Robert Mayhew on how geographical texts of the early 18th century preferred an aesthetic of the ‘exotic’ over accuracy
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I, Superorganism: Learning to Love Your Inner Ecosystem, by Jon Turney
Helen Bynum on the exciting and vital ‘molecular chatter’ taking place in the human microbiome
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Generation Y are failing to put money where their mouths are
Alan Ruby wishes students would use their economic clout in a more politically and morally meaningful way than purchasing organic burritos
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On the rise: spending on R&D in the UK
About £7.6 billion worth of research and development was carried out in higher education in 2013
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Queen Mary to open private medical school in Malta
London institution to charge students £25,000 a year to study at Gozo institute
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Licence absurdity
The proposal by the Higher Education Policy Institute for a UK national open access licence was announced on 30 March. If only Hepi had delayed the announcement by two days, it could have been...
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Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes, by Andrew Brooks
A wide-ranging examination of garment recycling should whet the appetite of readers for more research on the subject, says Ruth Pearson