Books interview: Cass Sunstein
The legal scholar and nudger-in-chief on Marvel Comics, where to begin with behavioural economics, and Star Wars and President Obama
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The scholar given a year to save Tunisia
Tawfik Jelassi, universities minister after the Jasmine Revolution, on losing his anonymity and being taken hostage by students
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UK’s university schools plan shows ‘more government control’
Birmingham free school key example for Theresa May, but critics warn of ‘incoherence’ in schools system
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Nordic higher education in decline?
The region’s reputation for excellence could be threatened by funding cuts and restructuring
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The week in higher education – 15 September 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 15 September 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grammar schools: the personal ends up political
UK prime minister May’s schools and higher education policymaking relies on anecdote and politicians’ own experience, not evidence
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Grant winners – 15 September 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Life with an abusive lab boss: one postdoc’s story
Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss’ abuse
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Could refusal to reveal graduate premium lead to a fraud charge?
David Palfreyman considers how secretiveness about the benefits a graduate might expect might fall foul of trading regulations
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More money needed on student mental health
Event debates how counselling teams can cope with increasing mental health problems among learners
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The internationalisation of higher education in Mexico
América M. Lizárraga González charts the progress being made towards embedding an international approach in Mexican universities
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Science communication efforts require strategic engagement
Funding bodies must foster a long-term vision for public awareness if research is to gain a place in the cultural mainstream, say Sam Illingworth and Andreas Prokop