McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, by Ronald E. Purser
Kathryn Ecclestone considers a bold attempt to take mindfulness to task
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education, by Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness
David L. Wheeler is only partly convinced by an attempt to put higher education under the ethical spotlight
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Russell Group students more likely to back contextual admissions
But overall students are split on the policy of making lower grade offers to applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds
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This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free, by Martin Hägglund
Book of the week: Joe Moran applauds a bold attempt to demonstrate why it is the finitude of our lives that gives them value
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Books editor’s blog: positive figures’ solution for criminal elements
Matthew Reisz is intrigued by a tale of hard-boiled mathematicians hitting the mean streets to tackle crime
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Hong Kong, China students clash in Queensland
Stand-off likely to exacerbate concerns over free speech on campus
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Careers intelligence: how to be an external examiner
External examining will make you rich – in new ideas, that is, writes Robert MacIntosh
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The week in higher education – 25 July 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media.
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Why OfS decisions on for-profits matter for whole sector
The fate of big alternative providers has implications for the future of English for-profit HE, writes John Morgan
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Is paid research time a vanishing privilege for modern academics?
Summer is upon northern hemisphere academics. But its cherished traditional identity as a time for intensive research is being challenged by the increasing obligations around teaching and...
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Universities’ critical thinking is in a critical state
Calls for critical thinking from their students are rarely reflected in academics’ own writing or institutional behaviour, says Alex Wright
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Are academic contracts built on sand?
A ߣߣÊÓƵ survey bears out the growing difficulty of finding time for research
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ߣߣÊÓƵ’s Newcastle plans ‘permeable precinct’ to attract companies
Landmark development ‘blurs boundaries between education and research’ and aims to deliver work experience for students
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Dutch university sought secret references on UK linguist
Leiden University acted unlawfully, a court has ruled, in using anonymous letter to discredit an applicant for a professorship
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THE University Impact Rankings 2019: data refining
Duncan Ross describes how we constructed the initial Impact Rankings and explains the adjustments we intend to make to improve the next iteration