Letters – 13 June 2019
Embrace the universal nature of science David Matthews’ article “Can academics help heal the world’s rifts?” (News, 6 June) covers a bewildering landscape of interpretations of the notion of “science...
Embrace the universal nature of science David Matthews’ article “Can academics help heal the world’s rifts?” (News, 6 June) covers a bewildering landscape of interpretations of the notion of “science...
Successful publish-or-perish operators should look in the mirror before writing their next diatribe about marketisation, says Mike Marinetto
Peer review is often thought of as ancient and unchanging, but it is neither – and it shouldn’t be treated as a sacred cow, argues Aileen Fyfe
For academics and students alike, pressure to perform coupled with a lack of institutional support can severely affect mental health
Five historians reflect on the disciplinary, institutional, social and political challenges facing their subject
Singaporeans deserve more local impact from their top-ranked public universities, says Cherian George
Simon Underdown on a call for the discipline to reclaim its maverick heritage to rejuvenate itself and tackle dynamic real-world problems
As the first anniversary of the singer-songwriter’s death passes, his childhood friend Kenneth Asch reflects on the place of both the institution and the musician in Quebec’s fractured cultural mosaic
Book of the week: Camilla Power assesses a bold new approach to the origins of morality
The #MeToo movement has cast historical behaviour and curricula in a new, shadowy light. Four writers give us their perspectives
A recent wave of commentators have been disparaging universities and painting all who work in them as complicit in a fraud. Philip Cowan examines their case
The progress of science will not be impeded if the number of flights academics take is reduced, argues Jürgen Gerhards
Jonathan Mirsky on a wide-ranging, eye-opening journey tracing a revolutionary development
Sector fails to self-regulate its ‘wicked issues’ The article on the Office for Students (“‘Quick with the rod’, but is the OfS up to the job?”, News, 24 January) identifies the inbuilt tension...
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media