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...
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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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New and noteworthy – 15 June 2017
Turkey’s American dreams; reels and reels of suspense; continental contracts; and Putin’s backyard
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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It), by Elizabeth Anderson
Book of the week: From staff in nappies to hassled waitresses, a study of work is full of justified rage, says Philip Roscoe
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What are you reading? – 15 June 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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How to teach reason properly
To defend the values of reason from political attack we need to be more discriminating about the claims made in its name, says John Hendry
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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
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Times Higher Education v-c pay survey 2017
In our annual survey of vice-chancellors’ pay, which reveals double-digit hikes for some and more modest rises for others, Simon Baker examines how remuneration committees make their decisions amid...