New centre hopes to put geography at the heart of the humanities
Centre for the GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway will use interdisciplinary tools to explore everything from Elizabethan England to climate change and migration
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Group of Eight call on new student number caps is 'crapulous'
Australian v-cs attack Go8 over its criticisms of demand-driven system
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Indonesia debates bringing in foreign university rectors
Prominent intellectual argues against new government proposal, saying many ‘imported experts’ have ‘no adequate understanding of Indonesia’
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EU referendum essay competition: should we stay or should we go?
The winners of the Times Higher Education and Hepi referendum essay contest
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THE podcast: Steven Knapp interview
The president of George Washington University talks in-depth about his time at the university
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The tolerant UK I love seems to be vanishing
You may say ‘the referendum isn’t about you’, but it is. German-born historian Tanja Bueltmann on her watershed momentÂ
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Black Death literature inspires academic to write debut novel
New fiction explores the parallels between the 14th century and the environmental disaster that may lie ahead
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Interview with Richard Henderson
The winner of the Copley Medal talks structural biology, fixing cars and sleeping soundly
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James Campbell, 1935-2016
A penetrating and highly original historian of Anglo-Saxon England has died
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Do academics need a ‘split personality’ to teach older PhDs?
Doctoral supervisors are having to adapt to a new power dynamic with their students, conference will hear
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US universities ‘obliged’ to speak out against gun laws
President of George Washington University also questions the benefit of free university tuition
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Expansion in global higher education ‘has increased inequality’
Study suggests mass higher education increases the dominance of the middle class over opportunities
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Hunger Pains: Life inside Foodbank Britain, by Kayleigh Garthwaite
Book of the week: Why are those pushed into food poverty then stigmatised and shamed, asks Lisa Mckenzie
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The Channel: England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century, by Renaud Morieux
Willy Maley on the many ways of interpreting that thin strip of water between England and France
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Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, by Michael Levy and Farah Mendlesohn
Shelley King on a comprehensive tour of magical worlds