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
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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...
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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...