Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, by Michael Benson
Nathan Abrams admires an impressively researched, behind-the-scenes look at a science fiction classic
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New and noteworthy – 26 April 2018
Muddled brains and mortality; angry white men; the illustrated Ada Lovelace; and going without God
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Why has research in the EU13 countries not caught up with the west?
Universities in the former East Germany are now on a par with those of western Europe while others in the former Soviet bloc still lag. David Matthews visits Poland to explore why
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The week in higher education – 26 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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In a populist era, Europe’s universities are progressive strongholds
Higher education institutions are vital not just to research and economic growth but also to ensuring the health of liberal democracy on the continent
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Ministers rack up ideological own goals
Two recent news stories show just how far the government is prepared to go in sacrificing the international good standing of UK higher education on the altar of neoliberal market ideology. Even after...
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Let’s stay together
I wish to dissent from plans to further break up the University of London, a federal institution by design and destiny. The desire of the leadership of King’s College London, among others, to become...
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Shifts in impact
The change announced on 11 April by Research England as an update to the research impact rules for the research excellence framework 2021 was introduced as “Following feedback from the sector, the...
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Panel compositions
The Black Female Professors Forum welcomes the announcement on the membership of the research excellence framework criteria phase and assessment phase subpanels. The forum heeded the open call from...
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One for the Kindle?
Alberto Manguel’s Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (New and NoteÂworthy, Books, 5 April) appears to be a most enthralling read. Nevertheless, as an academic endeavouring to dispose of...
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Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, by Jack Hartnell
Book of the week:Â Rachel Moss praises a study that peels back the skin of a misunderstood era often defined by death