It’s your score in the long game that counts
As tactics to maximise rankings become common knowledge and fluctuation diminishes, universities will re-focus on a diversifying array of missions, says Merlin Crossley
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We must ensure that fortune favours the 500
The work of 500 scientists transformed the 20th century. Universities and funders must do more to make certain that the flow of groundbreaking discoveries continues, says Donald BrabenÂ
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What are you reading? – 20 April 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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New and noteworthy – 20 April 2017
Economics, modernised; remembering Bob Crow; the emergence of globalisation from a war-torn world; Big Brother; and a history of squatting
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Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, by Stuart Hall, with Bill Schwarz
Book of the week: Fred Inglis yearns for post-1964 insights from the life of an icon of the intellectual Left
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Litmus test for science funding
The Naylor report will test the willingness of Justin Trudeau’s government to overhaul research support, writes Creso Sá
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Grant winners – 20 April 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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France’s academy: liberty, autonomy or permanent bureaucracy?
On the eve of the first round of France’s presidential elections, Matthew Reisz considers its complex higher education sector and the appetite among politicians, institutions and academics for reform
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Is the traditional research university doomed to extinction in a digital age?
With overcrowded lecture theatres the norm in undergraduate education today, online delivery has entirely replaced lectures and seminars in some institutions. So where to in the coming decade? Warren...
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What does the global future hold for higher education?
While some fear a dystopian outcome in which private innovators bypass the university, others are more sanguine about the potential threats to the sector
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Nice work – if we can all do less of it
In “Rise of the machines” (30 March), Nancy Gleason argues that automation will supplant more than a billion jobs worldwide by 2050, many of these at graduate level, but I think she has missed an...
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Best served rare
Making something scarce leads to increased desirability (“Stall and decline”, Opinions, 6 April). If UK institutions raise standards for entry, they will become more desirable, and, once they adjust...