Ribbon of Darkness: Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences, by Barbara Maria Stafford
Rivka Isaacson is fascinated by an adventurous journey along the frontier between arts and science
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Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution, by Maurice S. Lee
Eleanor Lybeck explores the striking links between ‘textual overproduction’ in the 19th century and today
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Senior technicians at UK universities overwhelmingly male
Figures show that even disciplines with a high share of female technical staff have few women at the top
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Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture, by Stefano Bloch
Jeff Ferrell is thrilled by a street’s eye view of the adventure of graffiti writing
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Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery, by Tim Strangleman
Peter J. Smith enjoys a vivid, if perhaps idealised, account of life in one of the world’s great breweries
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What are you reading? – 14 November 2019
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersÂ
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Tory spending plans include £800 million budget for ‘UK Darpa’
Boris Johnson pledges to double public spending on research and development to £18 billion over course of next parliament
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University leaders must also don the diplomat’s hat
Across the world, vice-chancellors’ statesmanship is being put to the test because no campus can escape the intrusion of politics, domestic and international
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The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, by Paul Tough
Book of the week: Deborah D. Rogers and Howard P. Segal find that the old ideals of meritocracy have been squeezed out of American higher education
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New security guidelines for ߣߣÊÓƵn universities
‘Non-prescriptive’ guidance highlights due diligence, cyber security and staff perks
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Reassess value of student ‘mass migration’ within UK, says report
Hepi study calls for debate on the purpose and value of the UK’s costly system of residential universities
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Chinese students ‘unfairly demonised for political purposes’
Flimsy evidence provided for China’s political interference in UK academia has raised questions over the motivation for calls for tougher regulation
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The week in higher education – 14 November 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The ideals of the Middle Ages are still holding back scholars
Amanda Power considers some of the deeper attitudes that can still inhibit academics from fully engaging in essential policy issues