How science is distilling its message
Dalmeet Singh Chawla looks at short, sharp new ways to impart information from journal articles
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Svetlana Boym, 1959-2015
A scholar, novelist and photographer whose work drew on her past as a Jewish émigré from the Soviet Union has died
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Interview with Kevin Sinfield
The former England rugby league captain and double university graduate talks higher education and life after sport. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Disorders of orders of magnitude
China’s sheer size means that its present economic woes will be felt worldwide, not least across the higher education sector
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University of London vice-chancellor heralds ‘HE innovator’
Sir Adrian Smith on what he feels is the institution’s undeserved reputation for fustiness
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‘Neglected’ mid-career women ‘need more recognition’
Transition to ‘make-or-break’ stage for female academics is a significant challenge, study explains
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REF 2014: study ranks subjects by competitiveness
Scholar says departments that did well in the research excellence framework may not have the right to ‘strut around campus’ if their field is not competitive
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Short-term overseas study ‘as valuable’ as year abroad
Survey finds that students perceive similar benefits to overseas experience, regardless of duration
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Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America, by April R. Haynes
A study of anti-masturbation campaigns reveals many unexpected allegiances, says Heike Bauer
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Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening, by Ellen Anne McLarney
Caron E. Gentry praises a work that reveals the contributions of female Muslims
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, by Timothy Snyder
Robert Gellately on a study of the ideas and politics that led to the mass murder of the Jews
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The week in higher education – 10 September 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press