Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era, by Marianna Ritchey
Andrew Blake explains why Beethoven’s days may be numbered
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Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks, by David Yearsley
Benjamin Ivry assesses an attempt to humanise the unapproachable genius of J. S. Bach
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THE World Academic Summit 2020 heads to Toronto
ߣߣÊÓƵ flagship event will take place in Canada for first time
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What’s next for the World University Rankings?
Incorporating the UN’s SDGs and updating the citations measure will ensure our data remain as relevant and accurate as possible, writes Duncan Ross
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Reputation of degrees ‘at risk if graduate skills don’t improve’
OECD education adviser Dirk van Damme highlights disappointing maths and literacy scores of university leavers
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Sir Mark Walport to retire as UKRI chief executive in 2020
Rheumatologist previously served as government chief scientific adviser and director of Wellcome Trust
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THE World University Rankings 2020 digital edition
Universities everywhere continue to join our effort to map excellence in higher education worldwide, adding more colour and depth to our sweeping global survey. In these pages, we showcase a wealth...
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Education secretary: conditional unconditional offers ‘must end’
Gavin Williamson also calls for restrictions on unconditional offers more widely, potentially via grade threshold or numbers cap
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Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis, by Noëlle McAfee
Devorah Baum is fascinated by a look at how politics needs to take much greater account of the experiences of early childhood
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To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe, by Matthew Lockwood
Elizabeth Cobbs is unconvinced by a lively revisionist account of what the American Revolution did to the wider world
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What are you reading? – 12 September 2019
Our fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Last Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature, by Nick Haddad
Book of the week: Jules Pretty admires a powerful study of what a declining insect population reveals about how we are treating the planet
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Universities ‘must protect workers from automation’
World Economic Forum economist Saadia Zahidi says campuses must prevent ‘hollowing-out of the middle class’ for sake of social stability
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Teach students how to fail, says Fields Medallist
Italian mathematician Alessio Figalli says falling short demonstrates the testing and unknowable nature of research
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‘Clean break’ Brexit plan triggers fears for EU research deal
Shift in alignment towards US sparks doubts over Horizon Europe association