Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, by Marie Gottschalk
Angelia Wilson on a prison system that has eroded democratic institutions and exacerbated social injustices
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Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain, by Lisa Mckenzie
Vicky Duckworth on an authoritative and personal study of the people living on the St Ann’s estate in Nottingham
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Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain, by Robert Hewison
Andrew Blake on a study of politics and the arts in the New Labour era
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Sex in China, by Elaine Jeffreys with Haiqing Yu
Jonathan Mirsky on a revealing study about the roots of changes in sexual habits
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Twitter’s not literature, but it can be a novel teaching tool
Social media can help the literary world come alive for students, says academic Rosie Miles. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance, by Marek Korczynski
Les Gofton admires an ethnographic study exploring how workers escape the daily grind
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Would a university hide a scholar who had committed a crime?
An academic’s conviction as a paedophile was kept under wraps in the 1990s. Would a cover-up happen today, asks Geoffrey Alderman
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Student admissions bounce back after 2012 slump
Ucas figures show domestic intake increased by 14,000 students in 2014
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REF’s diversity-boosters find fewer takers in the physical sciences
Report finds new measures did make exercise more inclusive but panels differed in numbers of scholars submitted with reduced outputs
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Rowan Williams on higher education's ‘inhuman and divisive’ jargon
Jargon demanded by REF ‘risks isolating universities from rest of society’
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Do universities really need to change their names?
As King’s College London drops a controversial name change, Harriet Line details the dos and don’ts of institutional rebranding
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A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble, by Edzard Ernst
Helen Bynum admires a physician’s quest to distinguish alternative medicine from quackery
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Warwick’s costs pass £100K as it foots Thomas Docherty’s legal bill
Picking up professor’s tab for defending himself in tribunal adds £66,000 to university’s expenses arising out of suspension
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Freedom of speech trumps safety on campus
Why are today’s students so preoccupied with protecting themselves from potentially ‘harmful’ ideas, asks Tom Slater
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Interview with David Lodge
As he turns 80, the writer discusses the ‘golden age’ of universities and the (imagined) sexual indiscretions of academics