Decision time
A decade dominated first by austerity and then by Brexit has brought UK higher education to a tipping point as the election looms
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5 December 2019 digital edition
Team effort: Are cooperative universities the future of HE?
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Humanists should not pride themselves on unworldly nobility
The humanities can embrace certain forms of vocationalism without betraying their essential nature and value, argues Kevin Vanzant
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More transparency will improve the UCU’s democratic processes
Vicky Blake outlines recommendations from the University and College Union’s democracy commission, established after intense infighting at the union’s 2018 congress
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Books interview: Michael Farthing
The former Sussex vice-chancellor on coming late to reading, his long fascination with India and different interpretations of the colonial eraÂ
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Deborah Terry named University of Queensland vice-chancellor
Old and new home trade compliments, as former deputy calls time on six-year sojourn out west
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The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause, by Susan P. Mattern
Book of the week: Emma Rees praises a brilliantly wide-ranging study of the menopause across the centuries
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Australian departmental reshuffle ‘to energise tertiary reforms’
Australian representative bodies back consolidation of education and training portfolios, as tide comes back in again
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Interview with Sonita Alleyne
The first black leader of an Oxbridge college on the need for careers-based initiatives for students, the joys of parenthood and seeking out moments of calm
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Walter Vincenti, 1917-2019
Tributes paid to ‘superb scholar’ whose achievements as a historian of science matched his prowess as an engineer
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Less than half of students trust universities to keep data safe
UK students are concerned about rumours of universities facing data security issues, says survey
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‘Mismatch’ between grades and course ‘bigger for poor students’
Female students are also more likely than men to be ‘undermatched’ to courses with lower graduate earnings
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UUK kept critical report on English regulator under wraps
Paper warns that Office for Students must work to build ‘constructive dialogue’ and ‘assure itself’ that it meets legal requirements
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The week in higher education – 5 December 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media