Supply, demand and other funding calculations
Universities need to raise funds from potentially mercurial financial markets without losing sight of their long-term missions. It’s a delicate balance
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Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions, by Christopher G. White
Simon Young finds much to admire in an attempt to explain the history of a seemingly impossible idea
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Managing the Wild: Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests, by Charles M. Peters
Excluding local people from conservation is not the way to preserve vital vegetation, as it is they whose practices produce the ecologies we value, finds Steven Yearley
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New and noteworthy – 5 April 2018
The case against men (16th-century-style); going to El Norte, and staying behind; glorying in Gorey; and saving Venice
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The week in higher education – 5 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The Facebook scandal won’t end the infuriating allure of academic social media
Constant emails from the likes of Academia.edu and ResearchGate keep Ron Iphofen in a state of anxiety over what he may be missing
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Student voice is nowhere near overpowering
In a recent opinion article, Nick Hillman asked, “Is the voice of students’ unions too powerful?” (26 March). Of course there should be a discussion about the role of students and students’ unions in...
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Valuation vexation
In “USS strike: why I won’t join the pensions strike” (Opinion, 28 March), Nick Foster argues that the case for pensions reform cannot be ignored. He cites a recent Green Paper, Security and...
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No star ratings
Cathy Shrank is right to take the universities minister, Sam Gyimah, to task over his plans to introduce consumer-style ratings for degree courses, but I’m not sure she goes far enough (“...
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Power and speech
The article “Stop taking liberties with free speech” ( Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018, 22 March) verged on self-satirising propaganda for the Office for Students and its plan...
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Let’s defend pensions, not defined benefits
Converting the USS into a defined contributions scheme could give younger academics a bigger pension pot, argues David Voas
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Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century, by Linda Nochlin
Book of the week: Lennard J. Davis lauds a study of portrayals of the poor as a fitting memorial to its author