Eastern Europe draws ‘dart-throw’ academics from overseas
Study finds that overseas scholars in former communist countries work there not out of deliberate choice but often due to ‘happenstance’, love or to escape poor job prospects at home
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Gender quotas and equality plans won’t work without a culture change
Susanne Täuber warns that mandatory gender diversity measures will be no more successful in the corporate world than they have been in academia unless genuine organisational transformation is achieved
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Minority college vote in US ‘could cause further policy paralysis’
Senate passing of bill on funding for minority colleges adds requirement on sharing tax data
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THE to host forum focused on Indian universities
Event will debate topics such as internationalisation, innovation and rankings
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Nine out of 10 academics in Arab world ‘want to emigrate’
Survey respondents cite concern over lack of funding, difficulty of international travel and bureaucracy
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US universities try barring problematic professors from classroom
Blocked from firing hostile professors, institutions restrict their teaching rights
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Oh, the humanity: rise of robots ‘to force about-turn in academy’
Malaysian historian spies signs that liberal arts’ 200-year ebb may be ending as unpredictability of employment puts paid to utilitarian education
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Two plus two could equal five for further education
Offering two-year programmes at FE colleges as part of four-year degrees could redress the UK’s spending bias in favour of HE, says Geoff Mason
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The New Slave Narrative: The Battle over Representations of Contemporary Slavery, by Laura T. Murphy
Bryan Cheyette considers an intriguing account of the stories we tell ourselves about slavery
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Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators, by Dan Porat
Giulia Miller is intrigued by a little-known episode in early Israeli history
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Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning, by John MacDonald, Charles Branas and Robert Stokes
Richard J. Williams is not totally won over to the planners’ view of the world
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The Cigarette: A Political History, by Sarah Milov
Mateusz Zatoński is disappointed by an ambitious overview of the development of smoking
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THE podcast: general election 2019 – can students swing seats?
THE’s data editor Simon Baker explains how he used student population and general election data to make some poll predictions for the 2019 General Election