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New horizons: economics in the 21st century

Economists’ stock plummeted with the financial crash. The authors of a new book suggest that reading novels could sharpen their insights, while four academics consider how the field might need to change

By Matthew Reisz

6 July

First UK-EU branch campus post-Brexit under consideration

6 July

Oxford tribunal rules against compulsory retirement rule

6 July

The plight of Libya’s academics should concern us all

6 July

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Trump's US sees decline in international student acceptance rate

By Ellie Bothwell

6 July

Corbyn: fear of graduate debt will lead to �?shortage’ of students

By Jack Grove

6 July

First UK-EU branch campus post-Brexit under consideration

By Ellie Bothwell

6 July

Opinion

Fifty shades of conference feedback

From steely-eyed sadists to licky Labradors, ingénue academics should beware of the cast of kinky characters who flock to academic get-togethers, says Tara Brabazon

By Tara Brabazon

6 July

New horizons: economics in the 21st century

By Matthew Reisz

6 July

First UK-EU branch campus post-Brexit under consideration

6 July

Oxford tribunal rules against compulsory retirement rule

6 July

The plight of Libya’s academics should concern us all

6 July

Rankings

Best universities in the Asia-Pacific region 2017

The top universities in the Asia-Pacific region according to data from Times Higher Education

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Social class and the TEF: a full picture of participation?

A look at the split metrics suggests that some universities may have benefited from having a more advantaged student cohort

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Research Excellence Summit: humanities and social sciences 'undervalued' by assessment metrics

By Holly Else

5 July

World Academic Summit

3 September - 5 September 2017

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Careers

Female academics �?interrupted more in interviews than men’

Treatment of engineering scholars seen as sign of hostile �?prove it again’ attitude

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28 June

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News

Trump's US sees decline in international student acceptance rate

Forty-eight per cent of universities report drop in overseas undergraduate 'yield', following election of divisive president

By Ellie Bothwell

6 July

Corbyn: fear of graduate debt will lead to �?shortage’ of students

Poorer teenagers in England will shun university because they �?cannot access Bank of Mum and Dad’, Labour leader warns

By Jack Grove

6 July

First UK-EU branch campus post-Brexit under consideration

King’s College London and TU Dresden �?Transcampus’ aims to strengthen ties between UK and Germany

By Ellie Bothwell

6 July

Oxford tribunal rules against compulsory retirement rule

By Jack Grove

6 July

US public university heads receive 5.3 per cent pay rise

By Ellie Bothwell

6 July

Nicola Dandridge to be CEO of England’s Office for Students

By John Morgan

5 July

IFS: English student loan changes �?hit poorer graduates hardest’

By John Morgan

5 July

Merkel’s party pledges to push Germany into R&D spending lead

By David Matthews

6 July

Social class and the TEF: a full picture of participation?

By Simon Baker

5 July

Marking exams? When it comes to workload, less can mean more

By John Elmes

5 July

Research Excellence Summit: humanities and social sciences 'undervalued' by assessment metrics

By Holly Else

5 July

UK announces £100 million fund to attract foreign researchers

By John Elmes

4 July

Features

By Richard Sugg

Researching singing mice: did you ever hear such a thing in your life?

From the Victorian slum-dwellers whose lives were transformed after they found a warbling rodent, to the jazz-like sound of mouse music, Richard Sugg says that if you take strange stories seriously, you may find something beautiful

6 July

New horizons: economics in the 21st century

THE Asia-Pacific University Rankings 2017: ready for the next level?

The universities of China, Singapore and South Korea are among the world leaders in some STEM fields, but will they expand their strength into other disciplines? asks Simon Marginson

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Opinion

By Tara Brabazon

Fifty shades of conference feedback

From steely-eyed sadists to licky Labradors, ingénue academics should beware of the cast of kinky characters who flock to academic get-togethers, says Tara Brabazon

6 July

#HEAconf17: are graduates really pulling up the ladder?

Calls among graduates to limit student numbers are not selfish, but may instead reflect concern about the value of university education, say Duncan Watson and Robert Webb

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#HEAconf17: Can comedy improve university teaching?

Gill Seyfang - who is presenting at the Higher Education Academy's annual conference - explains how improv comedy in lectures can inspire students

Why I boycotted my students’ graduation

By Emily Van Duyne

4 July

The TEF: a raven trying to fly underwater?

By Roger Brown

5 July

Jisc futures: what next for the UK’s international research collaborations?

By Paul Feldman

4 July

Jisc futures: the digital revolution and the future of science

By Geoffrey Boulton

3 July

Policy watch

Francophone higher education in Canada is not just about Quebec

The western provinces’ French-speaking universities reinforce a Canadian identity that is bilingual and multicultural, say Gabor Csepregi and Rodney Clifton

World insight

The plight of Libya’s academics should concern us all

The post-Gaddafi chaos has turned some campuses into war zones – with students among the fighters, says Darren Linvill

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Research Excellence Summit: You can’t escape Brexit

Wherever you are, populism and its effect on universities is never far from conversation, finds Chris Parr

By Simon Baker

Times Higher Education v-c pay survey 2017

In our annual survey of vice-chancellors’ pay, which reveals double-digit hikes for some and more modest rises for others, Simon Baker examines how remuneration committees make their decisions amid calls for greater transparency over the �?arbitrary’ nature of salary increases

15 June

Book Reviews

Book of the week

By Tom Stafford

The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding, by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber

Book of the week: Tom Stafford on an account of how social activity, not brilliant individual deduction, leads to truth

6 July

Knowing the Score: How Sport teaches us about Philosophy (and Philosophy about Sport), by David Papineau

Lincoln Allison confronts the objectives of an anecdotal and argumentative narrative

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One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality, by Jeremy Waldron

When considering what exactly makes one creature equal to another, John Shand finds that an animal’s potential holds the key

Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy, by Hannah Malone

James Stevens Curl heaps praise on a fascinating study and pays tribute to the scholarly tenacity that it is built on

A Short History of Medieval Christianity, by G. R. Evans

A slim volume masters a millennium’s worth of material, but women fall away, says Rachel Moss

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New and Noteworthy

New and noteworthy – 6 July 2017

Cultivating climate-friendly habits, a masculine discourse on devilry, how to power up and power through scholarly writing, and Black Power’s push into the centre

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What are you reading? – 6 July 2017

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