What are you reading? – 12 May 2016
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The week in higher education – 12 May 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life, edited by Dwight Neuenschwander
Valuable nuggets await in a master-apprentice Q&A but be ready to dig, says Andrew Robinson
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Universities ‘should set targets’ on recruiting male students
Hepi calls for action on sector’s gender gap to tackle male ‘underachievement’
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Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District, by Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Rachel Dickinson on a study that asks if 19th-century lifestyle choices can help us solve 21st-century problems
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Elite universities least likely to hit access goals
Institutional performance on widening participation released by Offa for first time
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Dante: The Story of his Life, by Marco Santagata, translated by Richard Dixon
Book of the week: Reconstructing Dante’s life via the Divine Comedy is a complex but enlightening task, says Prue Shaw
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Young of Slumdog Millionaire given more than just a stage
An academic who takes students from the UK to Mumbai to lead a community theatre programme tells Chris Parr how the project affects all who take part
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Are older academics past their productive peak?
A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they’ve contributed through the years
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Grant winners – 12 May 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 12 May 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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FoI costs? University ‘spies’ only add to them
An online experiment proves that part of the bill for complying with the Freedom of Information Act is self-inflicted, says Louis Goddard
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Universities need a REF that rewards potential
Lord Stern should devise a research excellence framework that looks beyond past performance, says Giosuè Baggio
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A matter of consent: sexual assaults on campus
Mechanisms for dealing robustly with assaults must be put in place without delay, argues Matthew Wyard