A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain, by Simon Goldhill
All the spoken and unspoken desires in one household are unveiled in a study of their prolific, and introspective, writings, says Jane Shaw
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Books interview: Lindy Grant
The professor of medieval history and author of Blanche of Castile: Queen of France on the literary and scholarly stepping stones that fuelled her interest in the Middle Ages
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Mass learning must mean web-based study
We have all the elements needed to make online courses succeed, but institutional inertia at well-established universities stymies progress, argues Laurence Brockliss
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To boost social mobility, campuses mustn’t feel a world apart
We have to do more to ensure British-Bangladeshi girls don’t fear they’ll be isolated at university, says Sally Brian
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South Sudan’s scholars need peace offerings
Africa’s newest country is fertile territory for post-conflict research and more, but they need Western help, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok
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Resits are failing students
We read with interest your article on the problems with resit examinations (“Resits may not improve academic performance, says study”, News, 15 November). At our own medical school, we realised a few...
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Who cares wins
There is a particular type of creeping dread that overtakes me at the prospect of a corporate induction, and it was with a secret stash of sudokus that I attended one at the [!University of East...
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Only connect
Articles are written separately, but the answer to many of our problems can be found by joining three of them in the 17 November issue: Janice Kay laments the rise of Trump (/Brexiteers), and how...
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Bureaucracy max
I have had similar experiences to those that Toby Miller describes in being told to keep a daily log of his activity (“My university has asked me to keep a diary of my work, and I hate it”, 19...
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Alternative appeal
With regard to Keith Burnett’s experiences on his trade mission to India, I found a similar situation when visiting the country in July and speaking to agents who recruit for UK higher education, and...
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Predictive text
I read with interest that a paper purporting to produce evidence of clairvoyance had been pulled from a journal (“‘Psychic powers’ paper pulled from journal after criticism”, News, 13 November). I...
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Grant winners – 24 November 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Universities whose work has driven environmental awareness
As the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rises comes into force this month, these are the universities that have, between 2011 and 2015, produced the environmental science research with the...