‘Chicken’ university leaders roasted for tame defence of science
Hermann Hauser calls on vice-chancellors to ‘take a stand against pseudoscience’
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The week in higher education – 15 June 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Arthur Kerman, 1929-2017
MIT professor who advised US government on nuclear physics remembered
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Interview with Pippa Rogerson
We talk diversity, the joy of family meals and Professor Stephen Hawking with the new Cambridge college master
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything, by Marcus Chown
Deft hands make light work of the incomplete ‘jigsaw’ that is physics, says Cait MacPhee
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Higher Education in 2040: A Global Approach, by Bert van der Zwaan
A thoughtful study by the head of Utrecht University focuses on the forces reshaping the sector, says David Wheeler
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The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, by David A. Ansell
Clare Bambra commends a polemic that shines a light on the fatal flaws in US healthcare policy
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The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism, by Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij
Matthew Feldman appreciates an enlightening exploration of radicalisation and its causes
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Books interview: Sarah Eltantawi
The professor of comparative religion and author of on log-cabin Lincoln, the Koran and Islam’s political movements
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Smash the academic idols
Academics can acquire cult-like followings, but our goal should not be self-aggrandisement but the advancement of others, says Shahidha Bari
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A rich patient bled dry
Lots of money is spent on medical education in England – but very little of it goes towards teaching, says Philip Chan