What are you reading? – 21 April 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Weekend Pilots: Technology, Masculinity and Private Aviation in Postwar America, by Alan Meyer
James Crouse on the exclusive, macho culture of recreational flyers in post-Second World War US
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Laughter and War: Humorous-Satirical Magazines in Britain, France, Germany and Russia, 1914-1918, by Lesley Milne
Kate Macdonald on the publications that used humour to share the trauma of the First World War
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The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State, by Fang Lizhi
Book of the week: The Chinese government’s persecution of Fang Lizhi remains baffling, says Jonathan Mirsky
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Much ado: Shakespeare’s quatercentennial celebrations
Amid all the events to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Peter J. Smith contemplates our appetite for everything – and anything – to do with the Bard
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What Chinese investment means for African higher education
Ellie Bothwell reports on what both regions gain – and lose – from the Sino-African partnership
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Apprenticeship levy 'could worsen part-time degree crisis'
Hepi report calls for levy to extend to employer-sponsored degrees, or firms will likely pull out of funding such courses
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The week in higher education – 21 April 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world's media
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Academics must not give up on monographs
Producing ‘real’ books builds academics’ collective public presence, and it is also the most irresistible scholarly challenge, says Ödül Bozkurt
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Academics in Italy have boycotted assessment. What has it achieved?
Many Italians have refused to take part in the country’s research assessment exercise. Alberto Baccini and Giuseppe De Nicolao consider the protest’s impact
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Grant winners – 21 April 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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NUS to encourage students to ‘wreck’ the TEF with NSS boycott
Students will be asked to sabotage the National Student Survey unless ministers pull back from reforms
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Malia Bouattia elected first black female NUS president
High-profile critic of Prevent has attracted criticism from Jewish student societies over her comments on Israel-Palestine conflict
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Alan Rusbridger on building a more inclusive University of Oxford
An idea formed in a Dublin bar could help Oxford in its ambition to act with greater ‘agility and generosity’, says principal of Lady Margaret Hall