Sajid Javid: could he reshape UK’s overseas student regime?
MAC report on impact of international students will be ‘hard to ignore’ for new home secretary
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Australian National University eyes role in new space agency
Funding for organisation expected to be confirmed in federal budget
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Anonymous student feedback not so anonymous, lecturer warns
Those who castigate lecturers in anonymous feedback forms should realise their identity is fairly easy to discern, according to academic
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The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century, by Alex Csiszar
Many issues that vex scholarly publishing today were there at the start, says Geoffrey Cantor
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The week in higher education – 3 May 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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UK and Europe ‘must join forces’ on AI research despite Brexit
UK expertise pulls far ahead of Europe in terms of output, but collaboration will be vital if sectors are to remain competitive with US and Asia, experts say
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Italy’s depleted academic body is unlikely to be fattened up
Whichever parties form the new Italian government, higher education and research are unlikely to be priorities, says Davide Donina
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Interview with Hilary Mantel
The Booker prizewinning author talks about novelists and academic historians’ ‘complementary trades’, ‘less subtle’ scholars and studying for a lifetime
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THE Awards 2018: open for entries
Submissions invited across 18 categories
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Athena SWAN is an ugly duckling
Schemes asking us to transform our workplaces in the name of equality, diversity and inclusivity are failing. It’s time to hold our institutions to account, says Rebecca Harrison
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Journals censorship is not bowdlerisation
Objections to the suppression of ‘sensitive’ articles should not be based on outmoded claims about consumption, says Michel Hockx
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Universities should immerse themselves in virtual reality
Embracing immersive content would aid public engagement and bring research and teaching closer together, argue Vincent Tong, Sam Smidt and Matilda Katan
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Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey through Our Cosmic Family Tree, by Jillian Scudder
Via clear, vivid storytelling, Simon Mitton takes an engaging learning journey from Mother Earth out to the farthest galaxies
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What are you reading? – 3 May 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers