France poised to scrap cap on number of medical students
Details of proposals to be set out in coming months
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Turkish academic star jailed for almost a decade
UK-educated political scientist Sedat Laçiner was sentenced after spending 26 months in pretrial custody
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What the ‘grievance studies’ hoax is really about
The elaborate prank that saw spoof papers accepted by social science journals reveals more about the hoaxers’ politics than the shortcomings of ‘grievance studies’, says Alison Phipps
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Video: three-minute plenary with Tony Chan
The president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology gives a pared down version of his 2018 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit plenary addressÂ
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The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars, by Roger H. Stuewer
A study of an amazing era of progress is as lively as the minds behind it, says Robert Lambourne
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Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works, by Mark Stuart Day
A grand tour of digital processes culminates with cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular
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What are you reading? – 4 October 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management, by Caitlin Rosenthal
The capital value of slaves made it possible for white livelihoods to flourish, writes Martin Myers
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From Politics to the Pews, by Michele F. Margolis
Exploring what comes first, religion or politics, can help us understand societal divides in the US, says Angelia Wilson
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Books editor’s blog: open society’s survival is worth fighting for
An openness and willingness to question oneself are the foundations of democracy and should be defended robustly, argues Michael Ignatieff, president of Hungary’s Central European University, in a...
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Appointments – 4 October 2018
Search our database of more than 3,000 global university jobs To place an advertisement please write to:Recruitment AdvertisingTimes Higher Education26 Red Lion SquareHolbornLondonWC1R 4HQ Telephone:...
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An academic’s guide to writing well
Scholarly prose can be verbose and unclear, and can obscure the point you are trying to make. Joe Moran offers his top 10 tips for writing well
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Sleeping with the Lights On, by Darryl Jones
Book of the week: Linnie Blake is taken on an illuminating tour of the thematic evolution and history of the horror genre
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Sir Charles Kuen Kao, 1933-2018
Tributes paid to the Nobel prizewinner dubbed the ‘father of fibre optics’