Trump: is it right for academics to discuss his state of mind?
Scholars ponder the ethical dilemmas of assessing the new president from afar
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Grant winners – 19 January 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Why we teach our students to read between the lies
Universities teach attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning, which 1930s Germany, 1990s Rwanda and now today’s US show us are vital, argues Donald E. Hall
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Study people, not numbers, for truth post Trump’s election
Social science must return to qualitative research to understand social and political shifts, say Pamela Prickett and Elaine Howard Ecklund
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Post-Trump, even my cheeriest students finally ‘get’ Kafka
Existentialism may now seem more relevant to philosophy undergraduates, but a woeful John Kaag shares their mood of blank despair
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The bottom line on blue-sky thinking
Although I’d agree with virtually everything in the feature on Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter (“You can’t order up a breakthrough”, 12 January), the need to push for even more funding of blue-sky...
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Not forgotten
I write regarding a blog post that appeared on 20 December, “King’s College London ‘wrong’ to erase George Carey from wall of fame” (www.timeshighereducation.com), relating to the removal from King’s...
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Peruvian pathways
In “Lack of HE collaboration in Latin America ‘goes back centuries’” (News, 12 January), Fredric Michael Litto discusses why there is relatively little collaboration between universities and scholars...
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Split shifts
Re “Lecturers ‘missing’ learning strategies used by poorer students” (News, 12 January). Undergraduates from poor backgrounds have to take paid employment a significant part of the time during their...
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First world problem
While it can be said that there is “an oversupply of PhDs” in Western Europe, the same cannot be said of the developing world (“Let the right ones in: limiting PhDs creates the wrong kind of elite”,...
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Gove liked us once
I am so pleased that Michael Gove clarified that when he denounced “experts”, he meant only economists (“Facing iceberg alley”, Leader, 12 January). He certainly approved of experts in 2011, when, as...
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Ideas of a university: defining our terms
What is a university? The Lords debate on the HE bill asked this very question and reminds us that in 2017, clarifying their purpose is more vital than ever
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Laurie Taylor – 19 January 2017
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