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Academics able to specify areas of interest to collect imagery of
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Why our favourite Christmas songs never change
Our affection for the past keeps our old favourites, with their old fashioned values, at the top of the Christmas charts, says Alexandra Lamont
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Mauritius v-c: peace is good, but it can be barrier to innovation
Leader says that desire to maintain tranquillity can deter islanders from pushing ideas to ‘breaking point’
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Australian funding model ‘risks backfiring on national interest’
Missteps with international students ‘a bigger threat to the national interest’ than to university budgets, says commentator
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Dismissal of Chinese professors seen as major progress on #MeToo
Two prominent cases signal higher-level response to abuses on campus
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A holiday survival guide for academics
Step away from work, don’t check your email and explain to your family what it is you actually do, Karen Rodham suggestsÂ
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Paddy Nixon to take the helm at Canberra
UUK vice-president heading back Down Under after five years in Northern Ireland
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19/26 December 2019 digital edition
Goodwill to all: A little kindness can make a big difference
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THE podcast: After the election
Following Boris Johnson’s landslide win, John Morgan and Simon Baker analyse the election results and consider what this means for HE
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2019 winter reading
From football to religious intolerance and from witchcraft to Hollywood excess: our reviewers select a book they have recently read and would warmly recommend to others and another they look forward...
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Gifts that floor us
A decade that changed the world is drawing to a close. Academia’s enduring values can light the path ahead – if we let them
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Success at college is often accompanied by a painful sense of separation from family, friends and community
Universities need to acknowledge, and try to mitigate, the losses experienced by many upwardly mobile students, argues Jennifer M. Morton
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Tony Brooker, 1925-2019
Tributes paid to a ‘visionary’ and ‘far-sighted’ computer scientist
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Interview with Toby Green
The winner of this year’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize discusses why we need to rethink our understanding of Africa, decolonising the curriculum, and the need to tackle big egos
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V-c sees OU as ‘beacon’ for virtues of comprehensive universities
Tim Blackman also sees green shoots for part-time higher education in Wales that could nourish revival in England