Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, by Jonathan Lear
William Kolbrener on an extraordinary collection that explores literature’s role in shaping ethical thought and helping to ‘transform the psyche’
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TEF ratings set to shape international student choice - survey
Survey of would-be undergraduates finds teaching quality is the most important factor in decision-making
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The week in higher education – 27 April 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Grant winners – 27 April 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Impacts don't just happen
Research is a complex ecosystem; focusing on instrumental impacts alone fails to give the full picture of how advances are made, say Laura Meagher and Ursula Martin
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World in brief – 27 April 2017
Higher education news from around the globe
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Laurie Taylor – 27 April 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Stories worth telling beyond the Périphérique
It might have been quite instructive and eye-opening if the writer of your feature on the state of French higher education, “Liberty, autonomy or permanent bureaucracy?” (Features, 20 April), had...
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Popular study
Susan Michie’s report The Health of People (“To improve people’s health, listen to social scientists”, Opinion, 13 April) makes an excellent strategic recommendation for a national coordinating body...
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Knowledge gaps
As an educator, I have a lot of sympathy for Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s lament about the sorry state of general knowledge (“Sorry, they haven’t a clue”, Opinion, 13 April); however, my (postmodernist...
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Innate religiousness
Ian McNay says that he bases his claims on “rigorous fieldwork” and “testable evidence” (“Creed and credence”, Letters, 30 March), so I was somewhat surprised that he so easily dismissed religion as...