Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist, by Laura Beers
Clare Griffiths on a study of the whirlwind life of the flame-haired Labour minister
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Success rates data may mask gender bias
Experts question whether funders are doing enough to tackle discrimination in grant applications
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Married to the(ir) job: living with an academic
Scholars and their significant others share the good, the bad and the ugly
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The week in higher education 鈥 20 October 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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Grant winners 鈥 20 October 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 20 October 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The class ceiling: why aren鈥檛 there more academics like me?
UUK must help advance equality at the front of the lecture hall through loan write-offs and conferences, says Geraldine Van Bueren
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Universities must prepare ECRs for life outside academia
Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow
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How US universities became IP-based capitalists
In embracing 鈥榗ognitive capitalism鈥, US universities have moved from knowledge generation to income generation, argues Henry聽Heller
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Damage control in Scotland
The further the Brexit proposals for the university sector are unveiled, the more disastrous they appear (鈥淏rexit turmoil 鈥榩ushes university pension deficit to 拢15 billion鈥欌). It seems that the prime...
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Wish they were here
News that the numbers of foreign students overstaying their visas have been grossly overestimated does not come as a huge surprise. The sector has been saying for years that students are education...
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Carrot or stick?
A leitmotif of current higher education debate is the tension between public and private good (鈥淧ublic higher education 鈥榙ying in the US鈥, warns Robert Reich鈥, News, 27 September). Governmental...
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Splitting chairs
On 12 October, Sir John Kingman appeared before the Science and Technology Committee to be questioned on the role of the interim chair of UK Research and Innovation, a post to which he had been...