Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions, by Gerd Gigerenzer
A good grasp of basic statistics will help us to make the right life choices, finds Omar Malik
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Fred Deakin of Lemon Jelly joins University of the Arts London
Who got that job? Recording artist takes up chair in interactive design. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?, by Anthony Giddens
Roger Morgan on a peer＊s review of Brussels＊ weaknesses
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World in brief - 20 February 2014
United StatesHarvard mistake hits 11,000A US university accidentally overtaxed thousands of its employees for four years in a payroll error. Owing to a mistake in the way it reported its employees＊...
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News in brief
United StatesHarvard mistake hits 11,000A US university accidentally overtaxed thousands of its employees for four years in a payroll error. Owing to a mistake in the way it reported its employees＊...
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Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, by Gordon Young
Sherry Lee Linkon on a ＆community of memory＊ fighting for a place called home
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Asking for it
It is hardly surprising that the pace of growth in anglophone taught master＊s courses offered in continental Europe is picking up (※A warm Euro welcome - and?in English, too§, News, 10?October).For...
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Pay is the front line in a fight over the future
The UCU＊s action is about fairness, equality and defending public higher education, say Tom Hickey and John Holmwood
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Postgraduate projects gain ?25 million from Hefce
More than ?25 million has been awarded by England＊s funding council to 20 pilot projects designed to support postgraduate students.
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Byrne tackles Willetts over science capital on debut
The capital element of the science budget should be ring fenced to avoid the peril of ※announcement-based politics§, according to Labour＊s new shadow minister for the sector.
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Leading light sought to shepherd southern star
CEO and director of research will represent ＆world-class＊ Australian biomedical research centre. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Poland: growth stalls in an academy overdue for reform
Solutions to demographic, quality and employability issues needed for a sector slow to adapt to globalisation
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Queen＊s Anniversary Prize winners announced
Twenty institutions have been announced as winners of the Queen＊s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.
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The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It, by David Weil
Virginia Doellgast finds workers pay dearly when big firms devolve oversight of pay and conditions
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Part-time study decline ＆set to continue＊, warns key report
The dramatic decline in part-time students will continue this year, according to a report that calls for an ※urgent push§ to promote such study.