Skewed: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias, by Larry Atkins
From Fox News to the race for the White House, this work is all about politics, says Sharon Wheeler

From Fox News to the race for the White House, this work is all about politics, says Sharon Wheeler

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Angelia Wilson on how vulnerability means profitability when deregulation and privatisation come to health and social care

Young scholars tell it like it is but is knowledge of replaceability a bar to change? asks Finn Mackay

Analysis of Labour Force Survey data reveals extent of earnings boost for university leavers

A crow named Betty is one of the highlights in a fascinating study of an exciting area of research, says Tim Birkhead

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

This week’s bookish things to do: brush up your Shakespeare, explore a mother of a holiday, put paid to the rentiers and count the cost of London’s Olympics

Christopher Phelps surveys a field that lends itself to interdisciplinarity, while a British scholar laments that UK institutions prefer Americans for Americanists

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

This graph shows the dominance of Russell Group universities in attracting quality-related research funding from Hefce, which is based on the results of the REF

The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!

Nearly 70, his mortgage paid and his children settled, John Kirkaldy realises it’s not too late to indulge in a globetrotting adventure
In “Some Russell Group universities ‘could opt out of the TEF’” (News, 1 September), Chris Husbands is quoted as saying: “The TEF will give students a powerful piece of additional information to...