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Your analysis in “Lands of opportunity: transatlantic comparison of university investments in spin-offs” (News, 24 July), stating that US universities invest twice as much in research for each spin-...
Your analysis in “Lands of opportunity: transatlantic comparison of university investments in spin-offs” (News, 24 July), stating that US universities invest twice as much in research for each spin-...

ESRC appointmentElliott unveiled as chief executiveJane Elliott has been unveiled as the next chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council. Professor Elliott is director of the Centre...
As the author of two books forthcoming in the Warwick Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities series, I can confirm – as stated in the article “Writers’ block: description of an academic struggle...

Shahidha Bari on a thoughtfully assembled tour of dissent in all its handcrafted, inflatable, gorilla-masked, badge-bedecked glory

Source: AlamyUnited StatesMore join Israel boycott movementThe African Literature Association has become the latest US-based scholarly organisation to back an academic boycott of Israel. A resolution...

Selectividad test removed in effort to drive up traditionally low number of entrants from abroad

West Country campus focuses on student exchange schemes and boosting overseas intake

Robert Eaglestone applauds a lively exploration of intertextuality in a work fit for a post-Wikipedia age

Simon Underdown on a meticulously researched analysis of two camps’ opposing arguments over Darwin’s work

Kristin Aune discovers the wide-ranging views and behaviour of ‘nones’ - the religiously unaffiliated

Tiffany Taylor on the emotional and aesthetic responses we share with our hominid ancestors

Steven Yearley on the economic and ethical reasons for why attempts to prevent climate change have failed
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The latest higher education appointments

The former adviser to education secretary Michael Gove trawls for constructive criticism on policy, but will not stand for general whining