City of Play: An Architectural and Urban History of Recreation and Leisure, by Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Catalina Pollak Williamson is impressed by a look at how urban settings have negotiated play, but finds that it leaves today’s landscape unexplored
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Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play, by Susanna Paasonen
Katherine Angel finds a reconsideration of sex through the lens of play evocative but overly ambitious
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New and noteworthy – 6 December 2018
When the press turned left, how artists turned on to Einstein’s universe and the ins and outs of illuminations
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Herbert Lindenberger, 1929-2018
Tributes paid to founder of Stanford University’s department of comparative literature
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Interview with Terry Hughes
The winner of this year’s John Maddox Prize talks about fighting to protect the planet and dealing with adversity
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Starred firsts only a ‘temporary’ fix for grade inflation
Academic who has advocated new band of top degree marks now being considered by sector says system still needs ‘fundamental’ reform
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Netherlands plans overhaul of academic careers in move away from metrics
Country will also consider creating teaching-focused professorships to stop academics being overloaded by responsibilities
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Chinese find graduates of foreign universities ‘harder to manage’
Applicants of overseas institutions still highly rated by employers overall, survey finds
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Labor inquiry offers opportunity to ‘reset’ Australian research
Move by party tipped to form next government triggers speculation over creation of teaching-only universities
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The week in higher education – 6 December 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Progress on widening university access in UK slows
‘Entry gap’ between men and women wider than ever before, Ucas data show
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The plates are shifting on transnational education
Overseas programmes are rarely money-spinners, but as power shifts east they will be crucial for Western universities’ continued relevance, says Matt Durnin
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Cuts to the golden triangle could leave the UK in bad shape
Both the rationale and the mechanism for redistributing research activity around the regions are far from clear cut, say Sarah Chaytor and Graeme Reid
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Massaging data to fit a theory is not the worst research sin
The furore over Brian Wansink’s data handling overlooks the fact that science should above all be about explanation, argues Martin Cohen
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Humanities and social sciences will wither if they retreat into ideological corners
Maintaining a breadth of curricular offerings is crucial if subjects outside the sciences are to retain their attraction in the digital age, says Dean Forbes