The week in higher education – 20 April 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Nobel laureates condemn ‘unimaginative’ research funding models
Peer review process punishes academics who ‘challenge the dogma’ of their field, scientists claim
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Drive to register all UK scientists: benchmark or bureaucracy?
Critics call proposal for world-first professional recognition system ‘demented’
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Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education, by Lawrence Busch
Comparing free-market politics with state socialism may be an intellectual dead end, says Aniko Horvath
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The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers, by Elizabeth Cobbs
June Purvis on the female pioneers on the frontline in the war to end all wars
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The Social Life of Kimono: Japanese Fashion Past and Present, by Sheila Cliffe
East Asia’s most iconic garment is as dynamic as any Western mode of dress, finds Joy Hendry
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A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability, by Todd May
John Shand appreciates a study of how humans cope when life throws them a curve ball
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Grant winners – 20 April 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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France’s academy: liberty, autonomy or permanent bureaucracy?
On the eve of the first round of France’s presidential elections, Matthew Reisz considers its complex higher education sector and the appetite among politicians, institutions and academics for reform
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Is the traditional research university doomed to extinction in a digital age?
With overcrowded lecture theatres the norm in undergraduate education today, online delivery has entirely replaced lectures and seminars in some institutions. So where to in the coming decade? Warren...
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What does the global future hold for higher education?
While some fear a dystopian outcome in which private innovators bypass the university, others are more sanguine about the potential threats to the sector
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Nice work – if we can all do less of it
In “Rise of the machines” (30 March), Nancy Gleason argues that automation will supplant more than a billion jobs worldwide by 2050, many of these at graduate level, but I think she has missed an...
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Best served rare
Making something scarce leads to increased desirability (“Stall and decline”, Opinions, 6 April). If UK institutions raise standards for entry, they will become more desirable, and, once they adjust...
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Computer says: doh!
Computer says: doh! “Using laptops in class harms academic performance, study warns” (News, 6 April) is a very broad headline statement – surely it depends what students are asked to do with their...