What are you reading? – 18 October 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper, by Helen Parr
Book of the week: A. W. Purdue finds a work that combines military and social history to be gripping and poignant
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Australia’s funding golden age ‘giving way to era of hostility’
The animosity towards higher education seen in the UK is likely to head Down Under, vice-chancellor warns
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Letters – 18 October 2018
Implementation, not intent, is flaw with REF Three scholars have argued that the research excellence framework’s reliance on hasty peer review by generalists limited sample size and accuracy (“The...
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Appointments – 18 October 2018
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European university funding ‘stuck in austerity mode’
Many countries on continent have not repaired cuts made during financial crisis, despite economic growth
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The week in higher education – 18 October 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Ethnic minority historians face triple the risk of discrimination
Royal Historical Society report warns dynamism of discipline risks being stifled by lack of diversity
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We all ‘got a grip’ and we turned our university around
John Raftery reflects on the measures he took to pull London Metropolitan University out of crisis
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Interview with Thomas Maschmeyer
The entrepreneurial chemist talks about molecular tools, batteries in the walls and a three-slice secret to success
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Lewis Elton, 1923-2018
Physicist who transformed himself into leading higher education expert remembered
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‘Predatory conference’ organiser ‘flees’ from angry academics
Strathclyde education lecturer calls for other academics to speak out
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The 2021 REF will concentrate funding even further
The relaxation of the research excellence framework’s submission rules could see research-intensive universities clustered on near-maximum scores, warms Dominic Dean
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Research charities will undermine their missions if they demand control of IP
Seeking a greater share of imagined profits from commercialisation would undermine technology transfer, says David Secher