Badly managed?
I very much support the idea of a National Senior Management Survey, and would hope that university managers might seek to address some of the problems uncovered (“Overpaid and overbearing: UK staff...
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Variable evasions
Even if Richard J. Haier’s research (“Achievement gap can only be closed if we embrace neuroscience”, Opinion, 6 April) uncovers 200 genes that appear unusually active when Jo performs a little...
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Coda and kudos
As some of the scholars who have been lucky enough to review books in the pages of Times Higher Education, we’d like to say thank you to Karen Shook, as she leaves the role of books editor for...
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Laurie Taylor – 20 April 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Textbooks are not enough
Serious novels promote the trust and people skills that societies need. They should be required reading for all degrees, says Peter Taylor-Gooby
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It’s your score in the long game that counts
As tactics to maximise rankings become common knowledge and fluctuation diminishes, universities will re-focus on a diversifying array of missions, says Merlin Crossley
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We must ensure that fortune favours the 500
The work of 500 scientists transformed the 20th century. Universities and funders must do more to make certain that the flow of groundbreaking discoveries continues, says Donald Braben
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What are you reading? – 20 April 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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New and noteworthy – 20 April 2017
Economics, modernised; remembering Bob Crow; the emergence of globalisation from a war-torn world; Big Brother; and a history of squatting
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Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, by Stuart Hall, with Bill Schwarz
Book of the week: Fred Inglis yearns for post-1964 insights from the life of an icon of the intellectual Left
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Litmus test for science funding
The Naylor report will test the willingness of Justin Trudeau’s government to overhaul research support, writes Creso Sá