Michel Anteby and Caitlin Anderson on Harvard Business School’s willingness to go off script
Harvard Business School’s teaching model offers consistency but also allows unscripted ‘discovery’, explain Michel Anteby and Caitlin Anderson
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto - L’esprit de l’escalier
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on two undergraduates’ stairways to heaven
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Letters
Rising from ashes of market conflagrationIn her brave condemnation of what has happened to higher education in recent years (“Free market principles have changed (and ruined) the academy”, Opinion,...
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Scenic routes
The majority of academics tend to focus on a particular area of research but, as Nancy Rothwell explains, switching to a new sphere of study can be a fruitful - and liberating - experience
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Frozen (political) pawn
How did David Mould end up teaching journalism in Kazakhstan’s frozen capital as a Fulbright fellow? He was a political pawn, he says, just like the (often absent) young people he taught
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The Work of Revision, by Hannah Sullivan
David Gewanter on the Modernist urge to edit
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A World of Excesses: Online Games and Excessive Playing, by Faltin Karlsen
Daria Kuss is impressed with a series of interviews that shed light on the medicalisation of gaming problems
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Victoria’s Madmen: Revolution and Alienation, by Clive Bloom
June Purvis is intrigued by an account of those who swam against the tide in an age of conformity and religious piety
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Careworn was made to care
Stina Lyon lauds a major theorist’s look at a global marketplace where everything’s for sale
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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See no evil
When it comes to plagiarism, the academy would rather see no evil, an anonymous professor warns
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Christ follows Dionysus
Christianity undermined Roman sexuality by giving it a spiritual dimension, finds Candida Moss
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Take LOLCats to the vets
There are better uses for the internet than viewing clips of cats flushing toilets, says Tara Brabazon
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UCU survey shows extent of zero-hours contracts
Union surveys academy’s employment of casualised contracts. John Morgan reports
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UEL’s annus horribilis continues as overseas exams venture is scrapped
The University of East London faces a £600,000 loss from the collapse of an overseas examinations venture, the latest in a series of blows to the institution.University of East London Global...