The week in higher education 鈥 8 December 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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Messages from Islands: A Global Biodiversity Tour, by Ilkka Hanski
From atoll to reef, a coleopterist fears we may not know what we鈥檝e got until it鈥檚 gone, says Jules Pretty
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Zebra Stripes, by Tim Caro
A biologist who spent 10 years in the African sun seeking to explain the wild horse鈥檚 pelage is in a class of his own, says Tim Birkhead
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Books interview: Ann Taves
The professor of religious studies and author of Revelatory Events on personal paths, spiritual paths and electoral grief and confusion
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 8 December 2016
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Ground down by French resistance: a tutor鈥檚 tale
It鈥檚 folly to make my language modules obligatory, says a grande 茅cole lecturer confronting students鈥 boredom and contempt
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Now more than ever, higher education is the road to wealth creation
Martha J. Kanter on making equality of opportunity a reality for 鈥榯he top 100 per cent鈥 of students
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Don鈥檛 write off independent bookshops
Physical stores on and off campus are facing down threats such as Amazon鈥檚 Berkeley book 鈥榟angar鈥 by evolving, argues Andrew Thacker
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International quality assured
Your report on a paper I delivered at the 11th European Quality Assurance Forum questioned the value of quality assurance guidelines for transnational education (鈥淕lobal guidelines for TNE 'may be...
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In good time
The editors of the EMBO Journal were glad to be able to publish Enrique Martin-Blanco鈥檚 paper (鈥淎cademic criticises reviewers after five-year delay to paper鈥, News, 28 November). The process was, in...
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Mexican vista
Writing from another Centre of Advanced Research in Mexico City, I share with Carolina Guzm谩n-Valenzuela the preoccupation of how to strengthen science in Latin America (鈥淗ow to make Latin America鈥檚...
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Dear diary
I have done the same Trac paperwork at the same institution as Toby Miller, and I think he is making a fuss over nothing (鈥淢y university has asked me to keep a diary of my work, and I hate it鈥,...
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Watch and learn
Data are available on nearly every aspect of our lives and it is up to us, as individuals, to make a decision over whether the tracking gives us any benefit. Universities naturally collect data on...