New University of Surrey v-c looks to China for industry links
Max Lu, the first Chinese academic to lead a UK university, says that increasing the institution's links with major firms from his homeland will be a priority
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Interview with Tong Sun
We talk with the?Royal Academy of Engineering?Silver Award winner about?impactful research, encouraging young women into science and how engineering is not just about an oily rag and a spanner
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Don’t get lost in translation
Universities must embrace entrepreneurship and work with industry – but with their eyes open, says Nancy Rothwell
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Asian HE expansion 'producing more graduates than market needs'
Hong Kong scholar says students are embarking on postgraduate degrees to 'delay' unemployment?
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What are you reading? –?10 March 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Social science research in Madagascar: it’s a jungle
David?Mould had to navigate cartoon lemurs and other barriers in order to help local academics study factors hindering development
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Beware Brexit brain drain, warns Oxford chancellor
Without the competitive advantage of EU links, UK universities will be outgunned in the fight for top talent by rich US universities, says Lord Patten
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Grant winners – 9 June 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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UK’s first Palestinian deputy v-c to mix management with conceptual art
Bashir Makhoul reflects on the roots of his creativity and his academic vision for Birmingham City University
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‘We are tough’: a rector’s fight against corruption in Kazakhstan
Krzysztof Rybiński on changing Narxoz University’s culture and the lure of ‘the best meat in the world’
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Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement, by Rosemary Wakeman
A continent-hopping survey of garden cities mulls dreams, war and exclusion, says Richard J. Williams
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Even if Brexit means less funding for universities, we should still vote leave
Blog: James Tooley believes the UK academy would be better off outside the European Union
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African universities must be ‘audacious’ to transform continent
Institutions need to establish ‘nuanced’ notions of excellence, expert on African development tells THE Africa Universities Summit
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Rhodes Trust to launch new institute and expand scholarships
The Atlantic Philanthropies gives ?75 million to Rhodes Trust and ?64.4 million for LSE inequality research
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The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years that Shook the World, by Jonathan D. Smele
Lara Douds-Cook welcomes a colourful compendium of overlapping conflicts in a disintegrating and reconfiguring empire