Dropout rates in focus at English for-profits as regulator decision day looms
Some alternative providers could lose access to public student loans if OfS judges non-continuation rates too high
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Life beyond the ivory curtain
Three scholars reflect on finding new purpose outside the academy
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Member satisfaction with USS pension scheme declines
Annual report shows increase in value of fund assets, but dispute over future contributions takes toll on contentment
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Interview with Jeffrey C. Stewart
The Pulitzer winner discusses the lack of national alarm over the lives of black communities in the US and how art can help Americans overcome barriers of race
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McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, by Ronald E. Purser
Kathryn Ecclestone considers a bold attempt to take mindfulness to task
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education, by Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness
David L. Wheeler is only partly convinced by an attempt to put higher education under the ethical spotlight
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Russell Group students more likely to back contextual admissions
But overall students are split on the policy of making lower grade offers to applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds
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This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free, by Martin Hägglund
Book of the week: Joe Moran applauds a bold attempt to demonstrate why it is the finitude of our lives that gives them value
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Books editor’s blog: positive figures’ solution for criminal elements
Matthew Reisz is intrigued by a tale of hard-boiled mathematicians hitting the mean streets to tackle crime
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Hong Kong, China students clash in Queensland
Stand-off likely to exacerbate concerns over free speech on campus
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Careers intelligence: how to be an external examiner
External examining will make you rich – in new ideas, that is, writes Robert MacIntosh
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The week in higher education – 25 July 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media.
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Why OfS decisions on for-profits matter for whole sector
The fate of big alternative providers has implications for the future of English for-profit HE, writes John Morgan
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Is paid research time a vanishing privilege for modern academics?
Summer is upon northern hemisphere academics. But its cherished traditional identity as a time for intensive research is being challenged by the increasing obligations around teaching and...
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Universities’ critical thinking is in a critical state
Calls for critical thinking from their students are rarely reflected in academics’ own writing or institutional behaviour, says Alex Wright