Lancet editor-in-chief calls for ‘activist’ journals
Richard Horton says periodicals can no longer sit ‘passively waiting’ for submissions and should instead focus on issues such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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India is poised to become a leading knowledge society
The proposals set out in India’s Draft National Education Policy 2019 are a positive step towards it becoming a knowledge economy, including strengthening the country’s research capacities and...
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Malaysia tipped to get stand-alone HE department as minister quits
Prime minister acting as education minister after departure of Maszlee Malik
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Berkeley ordered to compensate teaching assistants
Arbitrator finds campus unfairly limited hours to avoid having to provide tuition fee benefits
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16 January 2020 digital edition
Taking one for the team: The personal cost of defending science
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Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage, by Katja Pilhuj
Lisa Hopkins enjoys an ingenious analysis of the ways that ‘discourses of mapping’ influenced attitudes to gender
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Women, Writing, and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100, by Diane Watt
Hetta Howes is impressed by a bold attempt to recover the words of long-forgotten women
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We need backup now
Brave researchers who challenge powerful interests and angry activists cannot be left to fight alone: colleagues and institutions must support them
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What are you reading? – 16 January 2020
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Rise in firsts awarded by UK universities stalls at last
Figures mark end of trend that has seen the share of students gaining the top degree class double since 2009-10
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Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future, by Alice Gorman
Cait MacPhee enjoys an Antipodean analysis of the ‘heritage’ generated by space travel
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Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, by Sarah Cole
Charlotte Jones enjoys an account of a hugely ambitious writer who challenges many of our assumptions about studying literature
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Interview with Muzlifah Haniffa
The Foulkes Foundation Medal-winning immunologist on open science, adjusting to the UK climate and why women scientists still face bias
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Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires, by Julie Peakman
Book of the week: there’s something for everyone in this provocative study of sex, power and conflict, says Joanna Lewis
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Breaking the silence about the menopause
Like the rest of society, universities have largely failed to consider the specific needs of menopausal women. Here, one scholar describes how this can lead to marginalisation and bullying – and why...