India shelves branch campus ‘pipe dream’ for domestic ‘eminence’
Foreign providers plan was misguided, but domestic selective funding option brings huge challenges, say experts
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DfE approves UK university sales, but regulator’s advice kept secret
Ministers back University of Law, Arden sales to Netherlands-registered GUS, as BPP decision awaited
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The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity, by Johanna Hanink
Do ancient cultural ideas drive the insistence that Greece pay all its bills in full? asks Emma Gee
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Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane, by James Delbourgo
James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment
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Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial, by Stuart Blume
Free market ideology has contributed to ‘vaccine hesitancy’, endangering us all, says Harry Collins
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The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture, by Heike Bauer
A study of one of Europe’s leading thinkers on sexuality contends that brutality is a force behind much queer activism and political thinking
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The week in higher education – 24 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Bath governance under scrutiny on senior pay
Remuneration committee member formerly led construction company that won £64 million in contracts from university
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Singapore’s fling with global stars sidelines local talent
Singaporeans are starting to question the benefit of recruiting so much global research talent, say Pang Eng Fong and Linda Lim
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Interview with Sir Alan Wilson
The chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute discusses his career in higher education, making the case for the humanities, and the nascence of the Russell Group
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S. Allen Counter, 1944-2017
A neuroscientist and explorer who became ‘a great champion of inclusion and belonging’ has died
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What are you reading? – 24 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The state of higher education in Hungary
With the Hungarian government clamping down on universities and championing labourers over philosophers, David Matthews meets those living with the consequences