Sector leaders debate: how can universities weather the storm?
Round table discusses challenges of changing job market and political instability
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Interview with Geoffrey Alderman
We talk poverty, political correctness gone mad and the comfort of whisky with the outspoken historian
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Patricia Keely, 1963-2017
Cancer expert whose research was shaped by her experience of the disease remembered
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Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-garde, by Lise Jaillant
It was cheap reprints that took modernism from niche to popular, says Rebecca Bowler
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The New Russian Book: A Graphic Cultural History, by Birgitte Beck Pristed
What’s in a book cover? Grace Lees-Maffei examines a history of graphic design in Russian fiction
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The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting, by Alex Vasudevan
Takeovers of empty properties reveal different conceptions of community, Clare Griffiths writes
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Big Capital: Who Is London For?, by Anna Minton
Lisa Mckenzie on the property speculation that extracts profit from a global city by pushing out the working classes
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The week in higher education – 13 July 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Bad for business? One in five global MBAs runs at a loss
Universities continue to run ‘jewel in the crown’ programme because of its ‘prestige’, survey finds
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THE survey: one in three English v-cs backs Labour plan to scrap fees
Half of university leaders surveyed say £9,000 system is unsustainable, showing widespread desire for major reform
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Pakistani universities must capitalise on Chinese investment
The $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a huge opportunity to build academic capacity in Pakistan, say Abdur Rehman Cheema and Muhammad Haris
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Tuition fees could pay a political price
Higher education policy could easily be drawn into the deal-making and compromises that are routine in hung parliaments, says Nick PearceÂ
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Summertime, and the livin’ is queasy
The pressure of producing high-quality research publications spoils the long vacation for many academics, says Rachel Moss
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Universities need to plan for a dark future if academics prefer their own Plan B
Conditions that undermine the notion of scholarly vocation – relentless work, ubiquitous bureaucracy – can cause academics acute distress and spur them to quit, says Ruth Barcan
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The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction: A Linguistic Stylistic Approach, by Reshmi Dutta-Flanders
Book of the week: Sharon Wheeler investigates how mystery writers play a guessing game with their reader-sleuths