Improving universities’ tech transfer ‘is not about cold-calling’
Fledgling company reaches out to the US sector to help broker university and industry collaboration
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, by Pedro Domingos
In tomorrow’s world, all knowledge may be derived from data by a single process, finds John Gilbey
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The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary, by Ann Snitow
Emma Rees lauds an essay collection that highlights the American scholar’s game-changing writing
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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, by Ian Kershaw
Robert Gellately on a study that puts Germany at the heart of the narrative
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Hefce role under question as Johnson seeks ‘simplification’
Funding council role could be taken on by other bodies, according to lead civil servant on Browne review
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Cambridge v-c ‘would be concerned about increases in fees’
Stance of Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, who calls fee rise linked to TEF ‘contentious’, appears to contrast with that of Oxford counterpart
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Good Pharma: The Public-Health Model of the Mario Negri Institute, by Donald W. Light and Antonio F. Maturo
Pioneering medical research in Italy has defied industry and politics for decades, says David Healy
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Samuel Pepys and His Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703, by Kate Loveman
Peter J. Smith on what books collections tell us about the collector
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From France with Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy, by Mary Harrod
Gemma Edney on the arguments for the academic study of a genre too often dismissed for being à l’Américaine
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Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More than It Thinks, by Guy Claxton
From emotions to waiting tables, our physical frame deserves more credit, finds Joanna Bryson
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The week in higher education – 17 September 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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John Holland, 1929-2015
A pioneering computer scientist who offered many powerful insights into the nature of complex adaptive systems has died
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US postgraduate enrolment sees biggest rise since 2009
International students accounted for over two-thirds of the growth in enrolments in past decade, says study
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Quality assessment must be more than a tick-box process
Hefce chief Madeleine Atkins on what a simpler, less burdensome QA system might look like
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The world’s most innovative universities
US institutions top the inaugural Reuters Top 100 Most Innovative Universities table