Attrition is a price worth paying for an open university system
Australian policymakers have moved to link funding to student retention. But they must accept that desirable trends don’t all arise in perfect harmony, says Andrew Norton
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American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream, by Julia Mickenberg
Book of the week: Modern feminism can learn much from the women who visited revolutionary Russia, says Lara Douds
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Rise in universities prioritising style over scholarly substance
Students are being hoodwinked into enrolling on ‘trendy’ new degree programmes that are, according to one concerned academic, little more than a marketing exercise
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Books interview: Zeynep Tufekci
The author reminisces about the power of reading, the kindness of shopkeepers and the importance of protest
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What are you reading? – 11 May 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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You can’t cure students’ ills by typing on your computer
Being required to document interactions with troubled students in customer relations management systems is just a distraction from addressing their problems, says Susan D’Agostino
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The Dalai Lama controversy highlights the absurdity of safe space demands
Chinese students’ calls for the Tibetan leader to be barred from speaking at the University of California, San Diego show a flawed conception of accommodation and respect, says Ben Medeiros
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The week in higher education – 11 May 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 11 May 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners – 11 May 2017
This week's round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Politics of the Rock
The view that Spain ceded sovereignty over Gibraltar to the UK in 1713 is far from “tendentious”, and certainly not a “howler” (“In response: Gibraltar, universities and the EU”, Blogs, 2 May). Most...
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Markets and minds
Sir Thomas Gresham – who is mentioned in the review of London’s Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City (Books, 27 April) – helped to establish London as a global financial centre. Yet he...
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Network effects
In the article “US academics put research interdisciplinarity on the map” (News, 20 April), Simon Baker offers a nice example of the mapping of networks of collaboration (and intellectual influence...
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Variable rates
Well done to Michael Paraskos for emphasising that academic conferences that offer reduced fees for students seldom make similar adjustments to attract lecturers on low wages (“Concessions, please”,...