UK union members back strike action over pay and pensions
About 1 million students set to be affected by walkout
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Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music, by Richard Crawford
Benjamin Ivry is disappointed by an uncritically enthusiastic account of the great Broadway composer
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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women, by Mo Moulton
Sophie Read enjoys a vivid account of how four women who met at Oxford before the First World War went on to forge lives and careers for themselves
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Rejection is brutal – but here’s some consolation
Rejection can be felt more intensely in academia because of the level of personal investment – but it is a normal and necessary aspect of any career
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Dundee principal suspended ‘over rent row’
Andrew Atherton placed on leave after just nine months in post
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The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
Book of the week: Angelia Wilson applauds a bold new analysis of how the Republican Party’s determination to appeal to patriarchal, racist and religious voters reshaped politics in the US
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Books interview: Nicholas Buccola
The author of The Fire Is upon Us on childhood obsessions, racial identity and the power of primary sources
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Difficult times for international students in the US
International students have long been central to American research, innovation and knowledge exchange. Yet today a combination of changing legislation, regulation and attitudes is excluding many and...
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Glasgow to rate ‘collegiality’ for professorial promotions
University believes new criteria rewarding selfless behaviour will ‘focus minds’
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Joan Petersilia, 1951-2019
Tributes paid to ‘a committed visionary’ whose research and lobbying helped transform the Californian legal system
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Students fail to spot simple calculator errors
Researcher says experiment demonstrates that students mistake benefits of technology for increase in ‘internal ability’ to solve problemsÂ
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UK students spending less time studying, says survey
Less than half of undergraduates now spend 11 or more hours a week in classes, according to Advance HE study
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Kurds fear ‘displacement’ by Turkey’s Syria campuses plan
Ankara may be seeking long-term presence in Syria through campuses that will bring influx of non-Kurdish refugees, according to experts
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The week in higher education – 31 October 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media