Professorial Pathways: Academic Careers in a Global Perspective, edited by Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones
Aniko Horvath considers a collection that illuminates the deeper causes of the everyday irritations of life as an academic
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Making political interventions more effective
Lennard Davis wonders whether activist academics have wrongly prioritised exuberantly bad behaviour over the hard graft of working for real change
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Home advantage?
Top universities demand the best in the world as leaders. But when does a fresh international outlook outweigh domestic knowledge and experience?
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THE World University Rankings 2020: branching out benefits
Overseas campuses in Malaysia and China offer University of Nottingham students the global outlook necessary for today’s world, says Shearer West
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Exit wound: Jo Johnson quitting hurts PM and raises HE policy questions
John Morgan looks at why the universities and science minister’s comeback was so short and what his exit means
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Traditions of Death and Burial, by Helen Frisby
James Stevens Curl enjoys a brief survey of changing British attitudes to the saying of final farewells
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Is the Cemetery Dead? by David Charles Sloane
Douglas J. Davies considers an analysis of how funerary practices can take much greater account of ecological concerns
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Jo Johnson quits as universities minister and MP
Prime minister’s brother cites ‘unresolvable tension’ between ‘family loyalty and the national interest’
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Books interview: Prashant Kidambi
The author of Cricket Country on childhood reading, reflecting on the relationship between sport and society, and his favourite fiction genre
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No-deal leave to remain plans ‘imperil student recruitment in UK’
European Union nationals to be limited to three years in UK if country crashes out of bloc
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Fraud in the Lab: the High Stakes of Scientific Research, by Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis
Book of the week: Jennifer Rohn is startled by a detailed account of the scale of academic malpractice
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Teaching intelligence: rethinking the role of the reading list
Teachers can use the reading list to help students understand the process of learning, writes Richard Steadman-Jones
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Poor supervisor relationships hitting postgraduate mental health
Analysis suggests as many as half of the main influencers of depression and anxiety have their roots in the student-supervisor dynamic
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Barry Stroud, 1935-2019
Tributes paid to a ‘philosopher’s philosopher’
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Interview with Donald Sassoon
The historian on what we can learn from the study of the past, how different nations view their heritage, and whether capitalism is here to stay