University admissions: which system is the fairest?
Standardised test scores, interviews, entrance exams, choosing the top percentage of applicants: all are used in university admissions. Ellie Bothwell asks which methods provide the most honest...
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Sultan of Swing: The Life of David Butler, by Michael Crick
Ivor Gaber enjoys a biography of an Oxford don who became the UK’s first on-screen pollster
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Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt, by C. W. Anderson
‘More objective’ news reporting has not necessarily yielded better politics, finds Suzanne Franks
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What are you reading? – 10 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World, by Christopher Partridge
Book of the week: it’s human to crave spiritual transcendence, even through psychedelics, writes Andrew Hussey
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What NOT to do on your university application
You’ve probably received plenty of advice about what you should be putting in your university applications, but what about the things you shouldn’t be doing?
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Hoax against ‘grievance studies’ may get academic fired
Portland State University says Peter Boghossian’s attack on academic explorations of race and gender failed to get ethics approval
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Leadership intelligence: how to handle a donation controversy
Generous philanthropic giving brings significant benefits to US universities but poses leadership challenges too, says Ángel Cabrera
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Interview with Cristina Banks-Leite
The Imperial College London-based Brazilian ecologist talks about preserving rainforest and an encounter with angry peccaries
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Save peer review by measuring it in the REF, professor says
Oxford academic says increasing work pressures and time constraints mean practice’s future is at risk
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The week in higher education – 10 January 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Staff out of pocket as sector splits on aid for foreign recruits
Academics call on employers to provide clarity over support provided amid huge variance in policies within sector, but sky-high costs could deter institutions extending their generosity
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We must revive the century-old commitment to continuing education
The 1919 argument that a population educated throughout life was vital for the future of the country is just as imperative today as it was 100 years ago, argues Jonathan Michie