National Student Survey 2017: student activism has shown its power
The effectiveness of the NSS boycott means it is now time for universities to sit up and listen, says Sorana Vieru
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World’s best institutions for influencing inventions revealed
Nature Index examines how research articles are cited in third-party patents Â
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‘We need to talk about your gross teaching quotient’
The subject-level teaching excellence framework could lead to a lot of stress for no great gains over the institution-level TEF, says Andrew McRae
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Publishing in fraudulent journals is criminal
Universities, funders, rankers and individual academics all need to act to stamp out predatory publishers, says Roger Watson
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Beall: ‘social justice warrior’ librarians ‘betraying’ academy
Creator of controversial predatory journals blacklist says some peers are failing to warn of dangers of disreputable publishers
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The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age, by Steven Weitzman
‘Archive fever’, the desire to know one’s lineage, is a focus of this judicious study, says Devorah Baum
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Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black, by Athena Athanasiou
Joanna Bourke on a powerful meditation on the politics of mourning focusing on the Women in Black of Belgrade
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Idol imaginings: academics reveal the childhood heroes who inspired their careers
Many an academic will be dragged to the cinema this summer by bored offspring determined to see the latest superhero film. But what kind of childhood heroes did scholars themselves have? Here, five...
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The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home, by Abigail Williams
Bibliophiles in the 1700s liked soundbites and sharing. Are we so different, asks Valerie Sanders
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Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance: The Mirror up to Nature, by John H. Astington
Peter J. Smith on a study of the interrelationship between visual culture and the theatre in 16th- and 17th-century England
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What are you reading? – 10 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Career advice: how to run an international student exchange
Andrew Southgate and Rob Turner offer some tips on organising a study-abroad trip following a visit to a Japanese university
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Should the wealthy repay more of their student loans?
ߣߣÊÓƵn legislation proposes to lower the country’s generous loan repayment threshold – but some argue that it should rise even higher, says Andrew Norton
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Mark Thompson, 1957-2017
Tributes paid to land law expert who became Leicester pro vice-chancellor
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Interview with Stephen Milner
The Italian scholar discusses how Machiavelli might have appraised current politics, the benefits of birdwatching and discovering Stevie Wonder