Business courses relying on international students to survive
Report confirms continuing decline in popularity of traditional MBA
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Contract cheating requests ‘blatant and wide-ranging’
New research finds students paying low prices to cheat on introductory courses
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Citation diversity tied to medical research success
US NIH finding raises hopes of focused funding, but concerns of bandwagon outlook
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Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media, by Jacob Edmond
Martin Dyar applauds an analysis of the ways poetry has ingeniously adapted itself to cultural change
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Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel, by Stephanie Insley Hershinow
Charlotte Jones enjoys an account of early English fiction exploring what novelists made of their naive unworldly heroines
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Why historians need to take scientific fieldwork more seriously
Much important scientific research takes place outside laboratories. The history of science can only be enriched, argues Vanessa Heggie, if we give equal attention to other sites
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Power Trip: The Story of Energy, by Michael E. Webber
Nick Norman enjoys a bold attempt to track the past, present and future of energy
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An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science, by Robert T. Pennock
Harry Collins takes issue with an outdated account of the relations between science and society
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World Mental Health Day: 'emotional education' could help boost student mental health
Nadine Pinnock suspended her university studies because her depression and anxiety became too much to manage. She shares her journey and her hopes for tackling the student mental health problem
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Me, Me, Me?: The Search for Community in Post-war England, by Jon Lawrence
Book of the week: A. W. Purdue is impressed by a bold attempt to rethink the relationship between solidarity and ambition
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It’s show time!
As student numbers pass the 50 per cent mark, it is more important than ever to promote the value of HE, and counter perceptions that more means worse
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Teaching intelligence: how to improve feedback conversations
Staff must address power differential and ensure feedback is a two-way dialogue, or risk alienating students, writes Anne Wilson
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Interview with Greg Graffin
The Bad Religion frontman and Cornell University lecturer on combining songwriting and academic research and how universities should respond to far-right extremism
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Annette Kolodny, 1941-2019
Tributes paid to ‘brilliant and gracious’ scholar who broke new ground in study of literature and ecofeminism
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Augar’s English fee cut plan fails to win over students in poll
Hepi poll finds students show little preference for £7,500 fee above £9,250 status quo, casting doubt on electoral benefit of plan