The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity, by Johanna Hanink
Do ancient cultural ideas drive the insistence that Greece pay all its bills in full? asks Emma Gee
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Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane, by James Delbourgo
James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment
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Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial, by Stuart Blume
Free market ideology has contributed to ‘vaccine hesitancy’, endangering us all, says Harry Collins
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The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture, by Heike Bauer
A study of one of Europe’s leading thinkers on sexuality contends that brutality is a force behind much queer activism and political thinking
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Interview with Sir Alan Wilson
The chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute discusses his career in higher education, making the case for the humanities, and the nascence of the Russell Group
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S. Allen Counter, 1944-2017
A neuroscientist and explorer who became ‘a great champion of inclusion and belonging’ has died
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India shelves branch campus ‘pipe dream’ for domestic ‘eminence’
Foreign providers plan was misguided, but domestic selective funding option brings huge challenges, say experts
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Too tight a grip will choke successful institutions
Creeping political interference in universities, from the UK to Hungary and the US, is part of a worrying shift in attitudes towards higher education
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Crumbs of comfort on the beach
Emma Rees shares her holiday diary from the dunes
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Are football courses on the right pitch?
While Tere Daly’s opinion article on the value of courses such as football studies is heart-warming, are these really the types of courses that should be provided by universities (“A response to Nick...
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Build a social life
I believe that it is actually very healthy and productive for academics to use social media and to avoid focusing on one thing for an extended time (“Do we have to tweet?”, Opinion, 17 August). The...
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Happy returns
Recently, the vice-chancellor of a large London-based university attempted [on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme] to justify an undergraduate tuition fee of £9,250 by arguing that the university needed...
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Misplaced anger
I’m not sure why Andrew McRae thinks that students at those universities that did not receive sufficient National Student Survey responses to make the ranking should be “bloody angry” (“Sabotaged NSS...