Kick-start learning by giving students a lecture ‘trailer’
Nicholas Morton is road-testing some unusual ways to get, and keep, students’ attention
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How US higher education takes care of its poor
The American system isn’t ideal but it beats the UK’s, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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The age issue won’t be solved by driving out old scholars
Pushing out senior academics to make room for younger ones would only perpetuate an insidious ageism, says Geoffrey Alderman
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The essay is a 1,000-word bore. Discuss
The traditional medium for assessing students is a tired, restrictive form. It’s time for more dynamic, creative ones, argues Karen Harris
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The week in higher education – 3 September 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Grant winners – 3 September 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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THE Awards 2015: shortlist announced
Are you on the shortlist?
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The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism, by Liisa H. Malkki
Acknowledging aid workers’ motives does not diminish their extraordinary efforts, says Monika Krause
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The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security, by Rachel Hall
Richard J. Williams is enlightened and amused by the acts and aesthetics of risk reduction in transit
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American Zoo: A Sociological Safari, by David Grazian
This perceptive ethnography takes Randy Malamud behind the scenes at the penguin pool to ask if the institutions are scientific and educational enterprises or just commercialised animal spectacles
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 3 September 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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Creditworthiness of the continental club
It is not difficult to see why student debt incurred by non-UK European Union nationals will cost the British taxpayer a lot of money (“Recruitment boom from Continent prompts warning over student...