What are you reading? – 14 November 2019
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Tory spending plans include £800 million budget for ‘UK Darpa’
Boris Johnson pledges to double public spending on research and development to £18 billion over course of next parliament
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University leaders must also don the diplomat’s hat
Across the world, vice-chancellors’ statesmanship is being put to the test because no campus can escape the intrusion of politics, domestic and international
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The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, by Paul Tough
Book of the week: Deborah D. Rogers and Howard P. Segal find that the old ideals of meritocracy have been squeezed out of American higher education
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New security guidelines for Australian universities
‘Non-prescriptive’ guidance highlights due diligence, cyber security and staff perks
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Reassess value of student ‘mass migration’ within UK, says report
Hepi study calls for debate on the purpose and value of the UK’s costly system of residential universities
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Chinese students ‘unfairly demonised for political purposes’
Flimsy evidence provided for China’s political interference in UK academia has raised questions over the motivation for calls for tougher regulation
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The week in higher education – 14 November 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The ideals of the Middle Ages are still holding back scholars
Amanda Power considers some of the deeper attitudes that can still inhibit academics from fully engaging in essential policy issues
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Hong Kong universities are walking a tightrope over student protests
The ongoing wave of student protests is testing the diplomacy skills of the territory’s vice-chancellors to the limits. But is it possible to keep the peace on campus and maintain good relations with...
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Interview with Patricia Yang
The two-time Ig Nobel Prize winner explains the potential applications of her research on wombats’ cubed poo and why animal waste is the ‘best study topic’
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Samuel Hynes, 1924-2019
Tributes paid to ‘a brilliant, warmly sympathetic scholar-critic’ whose experience of war informed his work
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The REF must face up to reproduction’s true impact on academics
More account must be taken of pregnancy, assisted fertility and miscarriage, say Christina Hellmich and Marina Della Giusta
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Australians ‘complacent’ over need for retraining
Lifelong learning is not getting buy-in because workers at risk cannot see the need, study warns