THE podcast: 25-31 January 2018 issue review
Your weekly digest rounding up some of the top higher education stories
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Michigan State president resigns in wake of Nassar abuse scandal
Lou Anna Simon steps down just hours after gymnastics physician was sentenced for sexually abusing young athletes
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Interview with Cherie Blair
The leading lawyer and wife of the former British prime minister on why she applied to the LSE over Oxbridge, tuition fees and the importance of international students
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Susan Tamny Jones, 1945-2017
Tributes paid to fundraiser who transformed the fortunes of the University of Miami
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Career advice: how to run a university marketing campaign
The brains behind some of higher education’s most successful public relations drives share the secrets of their trade
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Degree algorithms create ‘artificial differences’ in final grades
Different rules used to calculate honours classifications could leave a university with double the proportion of first-class degree holders than another institution
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Davos 2018: top universities ‘boost innovation more than nations’
THE data analysis in partnership with Elsevier highlights economic impact of world’s leading institutions
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Settlement university law set to stoke Israel boycotts
New legislation would bring higher education institutions in the West Bank under Israeli law
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Consuming Religion, by Kathryn Lofton
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking account of religion and spirituality in America explores how faith is articulated through the marketplace and celebrity, says Torkel Brekke
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The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux, by Cathy N. Davidson
This critique details much wrong in US HE but also sketches a plan for reform, says David Wheeler
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The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe, by Clifford Johnson
Marcus Chown is won over by a graphic novel that allows readers to eavesdrop as experts discuss the big questions in science with laypeople
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Living with Robots, by Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano
John Gilbey on a welcome guide to the thorny legal and ethical issues of a new technological era
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Most privileged outnumber least advantaged 2:1 at most UK HEIs
But latest Ucas data show that institutions with the worst records in the past have seen an improvement
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Special pleading is bad for science
Canadian scientists’ impressive campaign for increased basic science funding risks splintering as victory looms, says Jim Woodgett
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No platforming needs no reforming
Barring controversial speakers has a long heritage and the Office for Students should be very wary of cracking down on it, argues Evan Smith