The People鈥檚 Money: How China Is Building a Global Currency, by Paola Subacchi
After years of suppressing the renminbi, China strives for a global currency, says Anna Watson
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The week in higher education 鈥 12 January 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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The Untold Story of the Talking Book, by Matthew Rubery
Hear all about it: Ren茅 Wolf listens in for chapter and verse on the history and art of the audiobook
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Will some overseas students dump the US post-Trump?
Donald Trump鈥檚 election could prompt shifts in the world鈥檚 international student flows, some believe
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What are you reading? 鈥 12 January 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews: Devotion to the Virgin Mary in聽Anglo-Norman England, by Kati Ihnat
Anti-Semitism was a key pillar of the carefully built cult of Marian worship, says Rachel Moss
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Saul Perlmutter: 鈥榮cientific discoveries aren鈥檛 made to order鈥
Nobel prizewinning astrophysicist reflects on the perceptions and realities of how big breakthroughs are made
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Warning: conmen and shameless scholars operate in this area
James McCrostie was shocked to discover the extent of 鈥榩redatory conferences鈥, but even more shocked by those abetting them
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Chinese scholars need US backing on human rights
China鈥檚 pressure on its academics to toe an ideological line will increase if Trump focuses only on business, says Tao Zhang
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 12 January 2017
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There鈥檚 nothing virtual about VR experiences
Your recent feature about virtual reality in education (鈥淎nother dimension鈥, 5 January) doesn鈥檛 quite bring out what might be the most impactful characteristic of VR. Surely the point is that as far...
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Teaching鈥檚 rock
In asking 鈥淚s teaching in research universities actually research-led?鈥 (Opinion, 22 December), Holly Else addresses some pertinent questions. However, she misses out two important considerations....
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Research relevance
University research currently speaks to a limited audience. For it to become the 鈥渇ifth estate鈥, as Beate Scholz and David Bogle suggest (鈥淭ruth in research鈥, Letters, 22 December), will require...
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TEF isn鈥檛 terrifying
The teaching excellence framework should be seen as a welcome addition to the information landscape for prospective students. This is a tool that can assure students about teaching quality. It will...