When the Girls Come Out to Play: Teenage Working-Class Girls’ Leisure between the Wars, by Katharine Milcoy
A generation of young women chose dancing over more ‘respectable’ pursuits, finds Clare Griffiths
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Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism, by Daniel Kupfert Heller
A militaristic organisation that emerged in Warsaw in 1929 was accused of fascism – but were its violent actions justified, asks Geoffrey Alderman
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Will learning analytics empower or entrap students and academics?
An academic parent, a student and two researchers consider if the metrics approach is really the game changer for improving student outcomes that many claim, or if it has a dark side
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Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary, by Ronald Rael
Perhaps good fences can make good neighbours after all, suggests David Newman
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Interview with Andrew Chadwick
Digital media democracy expert on tension between control and engagement, and need for less interesting research in his field
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The UK needs a Ucas for postgraduates
A national postgraduate admissions system would allow universities to improve planning, enhance student satisfaction and widen participation, says Michelle Morgan
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Donald McNeill, 1936-2017
Tributes paid to Catholic priest who founded Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns
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China and Germany strengthen on graduate employability
Snapshot from latest Global University Employability Ranking suggests relative reputation of US and UK graduates may be slippingÂ
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Bogus accounting and irrelevant populism cannot fill Labour’s £11 billion black hole
Andrew Adonis’s account of how Labour could fund universities if tuition fees were abolished lacks credibility, says David Willetts
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An academic’s tell-all tale that omits the day job
Books editor Matthew Reisz finds the philosopher and social theorist Jonathan Dollimore’s memoir a fascinating confessional despite its omission of his life in work
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, by Christopher J. Lebron
Protest movement against racial oppression in US belongs to a long tradition, says Martin Myers
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What are you reading? – 7 September 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 7 September 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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THE Awards 2017: shortlist announced
List of finalists for the ‘Oscars’ of the higher education sector released
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UK universities are national treasures that need care and attention
Britain has a remarkably strong higher education system that makes it a world-leading player, and it requires tending, not trashing