The week in higher education – 28 February 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Tight times ahead for ߣߣÊÓƵn teaching budget, politicians suggest
Continued funding squeeze appears inevitable as major parties’ policies trickle out at UA conference
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Interview with Bart van Es
The Oxford professor and Costa Book of the Year award-winner on bringing a Holocaust survivor’s story into the present through ‘documentary novelisation’
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Katharina Lindner, 1979-2019
Tributes paid to footballer turned queer theorist
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Pay ratio publication may fuel outsourcing drive, v-c warns
David Green says exposing pay disparities within universities may encourage removing lower-paid staff from direct payroll
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Sussex v-c: ‘dramatic change’ needed to tackle bullying culture
Adam Tickell acknowledges university has ‘failed’ staff and students in the past but says improving well-being is his top priority
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order, by J. C. Sharman
Sarah Kinkel enjoys a refutation of the theory that Europe’s dominance was a result of military might
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Appointments – 28 February 2019
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Research intelligence: communicating your research to those in power
Diana Mitlin, professor of global urbanism at the University of Manchester, shares her tips on working with politicians and government officials
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Iraqi universities must aim higher
Strides have been taken since the destruction wrought by the US-led invasion, but funding and standards remain unacceptably low, says Mohamed Al-Rubeai
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Commuting: a life sentence for academics
Efforts to improve work-life balance must address the significant amounts of time that many scholars spend travelling, says Rachel Moss
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Hungry students offer food for thought for diversification efforts
US universities must think harder about how to make the poorer students they admit feel like full community members, says Anthony Abraham Jack
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International higher education’s borders are impassable to the poor
The difficulties even of obtaining a scholarship to study in the West amount to systemic exclusion, says Rudrani Dasgupta
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The week of no wi-fi: how technical trauma hit one university
Amherst students incredulous about going for days without services they consider absolute necessities