We’re in this fight
The article “The middle-class academic elite are totally out of touch” (Opinion, 7 September) confuses cause and effect, appearing to blame “academia” for all society’s ills. Have academics in the...
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Downgraded results
There is one clear lesson from the review of the teaching excellence framework and the concerns about grade inflation, and it represents a massive slap in the face to all those who have placed...
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Indignity at work
Jedidiah Evans (“Wrung out and tossed out”, Opinion, 7 September) rightly alerts readers to the systemic issues of casual and part-time academic employment, issues that are not confined to Australia...
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Gene Adam Brucker, 1924-2017
Berkeley scholar of the Renaissance remembered
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Are rising fees bankrolling growth in vice-chancellors’ salaries?
THE pay data since 2010-11 show pay of UK leaders is going up faster than that of rank-and-file academics, but the reasons are less clear
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Interview with John Tresch
The Warburg professor discusses folk practice, emptying Milwaukee’s bins, and bargain cinema tickets
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Trump is right: Confederate memorials should stay
If we are going to build societies of peace and consensus, we have to accept each other’s villains as elements of our common past, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Feedback is a two-way street. So why does the NSS only look one way?
Being positioned as passive recipients of lecturers’ appraisal does nothing to promote the development of crucial graduate attributes, say Naomi Winstone and Edd Pitt
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The moral panic over student cheating must end
We need to call off the witch-hunt and trust in the capacity of our students to learn, says Bruce Macfarlane
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New and noteworthy – 14 September 2017
On crepuscular delights, kicking against the pricks, common corporate lingos, and wealth and moral worthiness
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What are you reading? – 14 September 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought, by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Book of the week: How far did two thinkers sway each other during a 26-year fellowship? Biancamaria Fontana writes