What are you reading? – 6 June 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Try the workplace before finishing degree, urges bank president
David McKay hopes AI might help universities select students with vital ‘soft skills’
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The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age, by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
Ben Higgins enjoys a richly detailed account of the 17th-century Europe’s ‘most important centre of print’
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Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, edited by Elizabeth Morrison with Larisa Grollemond
Sarah Peverley thrills to a lavish overview of the strange world of bestiaries
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IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon, by James W. Cortada
Book of the week: Christopher Phelps assesses a bold but flawed history of one of America’s great corporations
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Letters – 6 June 2019
Working-class scholars feel the bite of class In his opinion article “Class is no barrier” (30 May), Thomas Boysen Anker describes his path from a working-class background into academia and argues...
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Universities are the aces in the political pack
Higher education is often cast as politically insignificant, but look closer and it is frequently a chip in the highest-stakes game around
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Books interview: Jonathan Aldred
The author of Licence to be Bad on his enduring fascination of how things work and how no one understands what money is
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The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening, by Lawrence Kramer
John Shand wrestles with a difficult but intriguing account of the background noise that sets the stage for sound
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Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea – the Milky Way’s Home, by Hélène Courtois
Cait MacPhee enjoys a fascinating tour of our not-too-local neighbourhood
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Interview with Bill Palmer
The conservator of threatened language explains why two people are as important as 2 billion, from a linguistics point of view
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Talbot D’Alemberte, 1933-2019
Former president who won an ‘Emmy’ for his work to open US courtrooms to television cameras remembered
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Australian universities cap international student numbers
Administrations ease back on foreign fee splurge to avoid financial overexposure and to protect student experience
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Ex-ministers warn Treasury will not make up funding if fees cut
Augar review’s call to replace lost income ‘not credible’, says Lord Willetts, while Jo Johnson warns that any such funding stream could be ‘slush fund’ for ministerial projects
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Growing PhD funding shortfall ‘requires national debate’
V-c who chairs financial sustainability group warns that deficit on doctoral training raises major questions