Oxford to build 2,000 homes to tackle staff housing shortage
University聽chooses 鈥榩rivate sector partner鈥 to deliver project
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Interdisciplinary research 鈥榮truggles to bridge academic silos鈥
Study of grant funding in Australia suggests that collaboration across STEM and non-STEM divide is not the norm
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Academic uses film to raise plight of Sierra Leone diamond miners
Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged聽artisans
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Direct help for female students beyond the Indian elite
Projects for tackling gender equality in Indian higher education must be extended to the whole system, says Antara Sengupta
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Ethics education must accompany AI development, says MIT expert
Shigeru Miyagawa describes how artificial intelligence could transform teaching and assessment
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What are you reading? 鈥 6 June 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Try the workplace before finishing degree, urges bank president
David聽McKay hopes AI聽might help universities select students with vital 鈥榮oft skills鈥
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The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age, by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
Ben Higgins enjoys a richly detailed account of the 17th-century Europe鈥檚 鈥榤ost important centre of print鈥
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Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, edited by Elizabeth Morrison with Larisa Grollemond
Sarah Peverley thrills to a lavish overview of the strange world of bestiaries
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IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon, by James W. Cortada
Book of the week: Christopher Phelps assesses a bold but flawed history of one of America鈥檚 great corporations
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Letters 鈥 6 June 2019
Working-class scholars feel the bite of class In his opinion article 鈥淐lass is no聽barrier鈥 (30 May), Thomas Boysen Anker describes his path from a working-class background into academia and argues...
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Universities are the aces in the political pack
Higher education聽is often cast as politically insignificant, but look closer and it is frequently a chip in the highest-stakes game around
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Books interview: Jonathan Aldred
The author of聽Licence to be Bad聽on his enduring fascination of how things work and how no one understands what money is
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The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening, by Lawrence Kramer
John Shand wrestles with a difficult but intriguing account of the background noise that聽sets the stage for sound
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Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea 鈥 the Milky Way鈥檚 Home, by H茅l猫ne Courtois
Cait MacPhee enjoys a fascinating tour of our not-too-local neighbourhood