Lancaster tests appetite for fees in ‘land of the free’ Germany
Vice-chancellor predicts ‘very significant’ demand at Leipzig branch campus
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Is it time to break up the USS?
Higher Education Policy Institute director Nick Hillman assesses the history of UK academia’s main pension scheme to ask whether it needs fundamental reform
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London-centric policymaking ‘behind Erasmus+ uncertainty’
Bergen rector says UK's failure to commit to European student mobility overlooks importance of ties between Britain's north and Norway
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Bid to use AI to predict research reproducibility launched
US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility
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Letters – 7 February 2019
We support free thinking in the academy I read with interest the feature article “No strings attached?” (3 January), about large donations and gifts to universities and academic independence. It...
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Power, Pleasure and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison, by David Wootton
Book of the week: Lincoln Allison mulls the consequences of a cultural shift from traditional morality to reason
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‘A plant in the middle of the desert’: women and STEM in the Arab world
Jordanian molecular biologist Rana Dajani talks to Matthew Reisz about her multiple roles as a conspicuously successful feminist, hijab-wearing scientist in the Middle East
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Strong bonds: the state of chemistry
Seven academic chemists give their views on the field’s health
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Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology, by Adrienne Mayor
Parallels tell us little about the complexities of scientific innovation, writes Emma Gee
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The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas, by Roberto Simanowski
Our personal environment faces profound changes as a consequence of technology, says John Gilbey
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What are you reading? – 7 February 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy, by Julian Baggini
Lloyd Strickland welcomes an entertaining journey through non-Western philosophies
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Robot Rights, by David J. Gunkel
It’s not too soon to consider the rights of machines, and this timely book offers a clear way to do just that, says Kate Devlin
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New and noteworthy – 7 February 2019
A history of baby-making and an exploration of childlessness; the aura of the Arctic; occupied Paris; and heavenly bodies
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The Office for Students is exercising power but not rigour
England’s fledgling university regulator is in too much of a hurry to make an impact and curry favour with ministers, says Gill Evans