The week in higher education 鈥 16 June 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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Maintaining ordinariness through Egypt鈥檚 Arab Spring turmoil
The former head of the American University in Cairo, Lisa Anderson, tells Chris聽Havergal how it carried on and kept students and staff safe without limiting free speech
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Can India and China dominate HE in the 21st century?
John Morgan reports on the differences between the countries in terms of the provision of education, governance and the quality of research
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 16 June 2016
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Don鈥檛 get lost in translation
Universities must embrace entrepreneurship and work with industry 鈥 but with their eyes open, says Nancy Rothwell
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Gender pay gap: keep the 鈥榩ity payments鈥
Giving female scholars one-off sums to 鈥榗ompensate鈥 for the pay gap rewards biology rather than merit, argues Joanna Williams
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Oxford helping with childcare
Elena Tobolkina draws attention to the childcare issues facing early career academics in many UK cities (鈥淲hich should I choose: my postdoc or my child?鈥, Opinion, 9 June). It is incorrect to assert...
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Keep the status quo
John Kingman emphasises the importance of sustaining UK science and maximising its benefits (鈥淯K Research and Innovation: 鈥榥ine brains in one body鈥欌, Opinion, 2 June). But he offers no convincing...
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Priority clash
Students prioritising contact hours in surveys strikes me as an example of the well-known phenomenon of respondents offering what they believe to be the correct or desired answer (鈥淪tudent...
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Widening the gap
Calculations based on the data for salary gaps between genders was hardly fair to women (鈥淸!University of Essex!] hikes salaries for female professors to eliminate pay gap鈥, News, 2 June)....
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Little鈥檚 not enough
James Tooley鈥檚 piece on how the UK academy would be better off outside the European Union was interesting (鈥淓ven if Brexit means less funding for universities, we should still vote leave鈥, 2 June)....
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How is eLife measuring up?
In 2012, the open access biomedical journal eLife was launched to challenge the dominance of titles such as Nature, Science and Cell