Exam results are not unbelievable: today’s children really are smarter, argues Gary Thomas
We are getting faster, stronger, healthier and better informed, Gary Thomas argues: why shouldn’t exam results improve?
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Sally Feldman - The art of impact
A film about Indonesian genocide has impact in spades, says Sally Feldman
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Letters
REF non-submission and teaching momentsI find the University of Leicester’s decision to review the contracts of staff not submitted for assessment in the forthcoming research excellence framework...
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Less than zero: Ursula Huws on when capitalism quit caring for workers
The Cold War’s end and the internet’s rise freed employers to go global, leaving workers worldwide wobbling, says Ursula Huws
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Stars of the sea
While academics who lecture on ocean liners are frequently mocked by colleagues for the activity’s perceived lack of academic rigour, those who take on such work appear to have the last laugh,...
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The parent trap
Rachel Bowlby on a modern retelling of Henry James’ tale of childhood curiosity and parental shortcomings
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Laurie Taylor
‘Zero here’ contract scandal“I couldn’t even tell you the way to Poppleton. Is it in the North somewhere?”That was the startling admission made by one of our university’s latest research appointments...
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Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics, by Chad Lavin
Erika Cudworth discusses neoliberalism’s ‘digestive turn’
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Crash and Beyond: Causes and Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis, by Andrew Farlow
Victoria Bateman on the parallels and differences between 1929 and 2008
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No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, by Ruth R. Wisse
A Harvard scholar on what makes Jewish wisecracks distinctly Jewish
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Mothers in Academia, edited by Mari Castañeda and Kirsten Isgro
Female scholars talk candidly about their experiences of combining an academic career with child-rearing
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Sharpen your blue pencil
Sandra Leaton Gray hails a text that all academics (and their students) should read
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Elements of mystery
The international hunt for chemistry’s ‘missing links’ makes for an engrossing tale, finds Alan Rocke
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The week in higher education - 15 August 2013
Since taking over last year at the Office for Fair Access, Les Ebdon’s tactic for avoiding publicity has been to make all his pronouncements as boring as possible. But that does not keep people off...