What are you reading? – 26 April 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Subversion is at the heart of the academy
Universities cannot become Gardens of Eden without losing their key purpose, writes Hanna Holborn Gray
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Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation, by The Multigraph Collective
Abigail Williams enjoys this demonstration of the many ways in which publications make meaning
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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, by Michael Benson
Nathan Abrams admires an impressively researched, behind-the-scenes look at a science fiction classic
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New and noteworthy – 26 April 2018
Muddled brains and mortality; angry white men; the illustrated Ada Lovelace; and going without God
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Why has research in the EU13 countries not caught up with the west?
Universities in the former East Germany are now on a par with those of western Europe while others in the former Soviet bloc still lag. David Matthews visits Poland to explore why
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The week in higher education – 26 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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In a populist era, Europe’s universities are progressive strongholds
Higher education institutions are vital not just to research and economic growth but also to ensuring the health of liberal democracy on the continent
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Ministers rack up ideological own goals
Two recent news stories show just how far the government is prepared to go in sacrificing the international good standing of UK higher education on the altar of neoliberal market ideology. Even after...
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Let’s stay together
I wish to dissent from plans to further break up the University of London, a federal institution by design and destiny. The desire of the leadership of King’s College London, among others, to become...
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The best universities in New Europe
Times Higher Education ranking reveals top universities from across the 13 latest European Union member states
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Research Excellence Summit: east-west gap ‘worsened by EU easy money’
Speakers at THE summit worry that structural funds have become ‘part of the problem’ for new member states
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Academic fraud a ‘real challenge’ to UK’s quality assurance
Head of QAA says a wave of allegations against alternative providers shows need for action on academic malpractice