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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Vice-chancellors get pay hike ‘despite dent in recruitment’
Figures from latest Times Higher Education/Grant Thornton survey highlight ‘arbitrary nature’ of awards, says UCU
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Lecturer barred from job interview ‘for not bringing life’s work’
Peter Cherry knew something was wrong when other applicants arrived in Madrid with several suitcases of documents
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‘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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The allocation of scientific grants should be a science
His experiences on a panel reviewing Canadian grant allocation has convinced Jonathan Grant that the evidence base for current practice needs serious reinforcement
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Laurie Taylor – 15 June 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Corbyn’s vision for higher education ushers in a new era
The wide appeal of Labour’s fees pledge means free higher education is back on the agenda, amid a shift in the political landscape
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On smarter supervision and smarter PhDs
Thank you for the feature “Of monsters and mentors” (1 June). The stories from the PhD students really resonated with me and the other students in my lab, particularly the accounts of casual neglect...
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Working the seams
Your article “EU set to ease rules on text and data mining” (News, 25 May) fails to acknowledge the work that publishers are undertaking to not only facilitate text and data mining but also to ensure...
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Copycat worlds
Simon Bullock, speaking for the Quality Assurance Agency, plays a wonderfully straight bat when he declares that the QAA will not tolerate students resorting to essay mills (“Using an essay mill is...