New and noteworthy – 16 November 2017
Get up to speed with dolphins; get a whiff of Victorian dandies; get a look at a secretive artist’s life and work; and get a glimpse of our disappearing nature

Get up to speed with dolphins; get a whiff of Victorian dandies; get a look at a secretive artist’s life and work; and get a glimpse of our disappearing nature

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Hollywood and Westminster have been rocked by tales of sexual assault and abuse. Is academia similarly plagued by misuse of power and sexual misconduct? Five scholars offer their views
Re “The Weinsteins of academia can no longer be tolerated” (Opinion, 7 November). As a woman in academia, I must say that I am becoming tired of this gendered debate and blaming of abuse of power on...
If UK universities are indeed embroiled in a culture war over Brexit (“Are UK universities on the front line of a Brexit ‘culture war’?”, News, 9 November) how can we, as Andy Westwood suggests, “…...
Although I agree with the overall argument in the article “The role of business schools within universities” (Opinion, 6 November) – that the role of business schools must be viewed through a wider...
I’m afraid Devorah Baum’s joke about Cohen, a Jew in Berlin in 1933, and Hitler “having lunch” (“Painfully funny”, Feature, 26 October) doesn’t do it for me. In narrative jokes, the key to the art of...

Just like Hollywood and Parliament, academia has entrenched power hierarchies. It can’t pretend that sexual harassment doesn’t take place