Africa needs to ramp up STEM research
World Bank report says countries of sub-Saharan Africa need more and better postgraduate qualifications
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Take charge to steer your career in the right direction
In a shifting employment landscape, academics are urged to drive their own progress rather than letting it happen by accident. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Are “forgivable fees” the answer?
Maintaining a stable university income while writing off a third of student loans could save money and win votes, John Cater suggests
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Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 at Tate Modern, London
The German artist critiqued Western ideals with humour and a sharp eye for their subjective nature, says Eliane Glaser
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The Copernicus Complex: The Quest for Our Cosmic (In)significance, by Caleb Scharf
Is life on our planet unique in space? And do we know how to find out? Cait MacPhee ponders
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Resonances of the Raj: India in the English Musical Imagination 1897-1947, by Nalini Ghuman
Andrew Blake appreciates a new view of the relationship between Empire and cultural hybridity
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Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire, by Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor
Isabelle Szmigin on how ‘pleasure engineers’ have affected our physical and social well-being
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Actual Consciousness, by Ted Honderich
Roberta Locatelli on an audacious venture to elucidate representations of thoughts and desires
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John Skelton: The Career of an Early Tudor Poet, by John Scattergood
David Salter on a comprehensive analysis of the diverse work of a ‘poet of contradictions’
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God and the Multiverse: Humanity’s Expanding View of the Cosmos, by Victor J. Stenger
Virginia Trimble on a book that aims to explain the universe and its contents in terms of natural processes
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Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time, by Garry Wills
A look at theatre in the Elizabethan court indulges in some fantasies of its own, says Willy Maley
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The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts, by Sarah Dry
Robyn Arianrhod on the complex and contradictory life of the greatest physicist of all time
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The Global Republic: America’s Inadvertent Rise to World Power, by Frank Ninkovich
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on an intricate history of the role of America on the global stage
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A Mooc that is a ‘replica of the campus version’
There is no dumbing down with a professor’s Caltech Parallel Session - how do campus and online students feel about the shared course?
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Glasgow ‘first university in Europe’ to divest from fossil fuel firms
The University of Glasgow has become the first university in Europe to commit to divesting from the fossil fuel industry, campaigners have said.