UK research grant success rates rise for first time in five years
Largest amount of cash handed out by research councils overall since 2014-15 brings an end to negative trend
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Oxford tops research grant table for third year
Funding fell for many of the UK’s top institutions despite increase in overall amount of cash granted by research councils
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The week in higher education – 16 November 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Sutton Trust calls for means-tested tuition fees in England
Budget must address ‘scandal’ of debt burden faced by poorest students by linking fees to family income, says education charity
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Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling, by David Bordwell
By borrowing and recycling ideas, old Tinseltown pioneered cinematic narrative, says Lucy Bolton
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Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies, by Violaine Roussel
Charles Drazin commends a perceptive although somewhat austere study of Hollywood’s power dynamic
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Interview with Mykaell Riley
University of Westminster music academic on fighting with punks, boosting Peter Andre’s career and pioneering ‘classical reggae’
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What are you reading? – 16 November 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Global University Employability Ranking 2017
Using the results of the Global University Employability Survey, Simon Baker reveals which countries and institutions are rated best for graduate digital competency and links to industry, and which...
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Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, by Lynne Segal
Witty asides permeate a study contemplating money, love, hope and rappers, says Emma Rees
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New and noteworthy – 16 November 2017
Get up to speed with dolphins; get a whiff of Victorian dandies; get a look at a secretive artist’s life and work; and get a glimpse of our disappearing nature