No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, by Ruth R. Wisse
A Harvard scholar on what makes Jewish wisecracks distinctly Jewish
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Mothers in Academia, edited by Mari Castañeda and Kirsten Isgro
Female scholars talk candidly about their experiences of combining an academic career with child-rearing
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Sharpen your blue pencil
Sandra Leaton Gray hails a text that all academics (and their students) should read
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Elements of mystery
The international hunt for chemistry’s ‘missing links’ makes for an engrossing tale, finds Alan Rocke
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THE Best University Workplace Survey: staff unheard?
Early results show 40% of respondents feel ignored
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Save your work – give software engineers a career track
Academy risks research future by failing to give credit where it’s due
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The week in higher education - 15 August 2013
Since taking over last year at the Office for Fair Access, Les Ebdon’s tactic for avoiding publicity has been to make all his pronouncements as boring as possible. But that does not keep people off...
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Cleared dean resigns after Cardiff restructure
Paul Morgan, who was cleared of research misconduct earlier this year, has resigned as the dean and head of Cardiff University’s School of Medicine, citing an inability to work under the university’s...
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Unintended results
As A-level results day dawns, Michael Gove’s plans for the exam’s fundamental reform draw ever closer to fruition. But will they endanger the traditional values he seeks to promote? Jack Grove...
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Vulvanomics
Shahidha Bari welcomes a thoughtful look at ordinary anatomy and extraordinary anxiety
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Oxbridge applications rule ‘could be challenged’
Oxford and Cambridge agreement could amount to breach of competition law, say experts
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Girls score higher than male coursemates on Ucas points
But data show that grades in each subject may be rather more equal
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University suspends visa sponsorship programme
Home Office ‘looking into’ partnership between Glyndwr University and London School of Business and Finance
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Odds and quads - 15 August 2013
Ceramic cabbages, knitted cauliflowers and caterpillars, birds made of stone and metal, dancing daffodils, even a hive of porcelain bees: all formed part of the allotment created by the Manchester...