Should universities monitor student library use?
With the link between frequent library use and higher grades confirmed, Jack Grove asks if it is time for more universities to start measuring how long students spend in the stacks
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TEF 'unlikely to boost status of teaching against research'
Additional fee income could be diverted to fund research, warns Hepi paper
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Open University aims to be top validating institution
Distance learning champion plans to expand activities with new model
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil
Book of the week: If all-seeing ‘miracle’ tech is making the decisions we must demystify the tricks, says Danny Dorling
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Your toughest experiment: taking the lead in the lab
Eight scientists share the secrets of being a successful principal investigator
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Skewed: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias, by Larry Atkins
From Fox News to the race for the White House, this work is all about politics, says Sharon Wheeler
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What are you reading? – 8 September 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens, by Daniel L. Hatcher
Angelia Wilson on how vulnerability means profitability when deregulation and privatisation come to health and social care
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Being an Early Career Feminist Academic: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges, edited by Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland
Young scholars tell it like it is but is knowledge of replaceability a bar to change? asks Finn Mackay
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Landmark study confirms graduate premium variations
Analysis of Labour Force Survey data reveals extent of earnings boost for university leavers
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Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence, by Nathan Emery
A crow named Betty is one of the highlights in a fascinating study of an exciting area of research, says Tim Birkhead
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The week in higher education – 8 September 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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New and noteworthy – 8 September 2016
This week’s bookish things to do: brush up your Shakespeare, explore a mother of a holiday, put paid to the rentiers and count the cost of London’s Olympics
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The American studies melting pot
Christopher Phelps surveys a field that lends itself to interdisciplinarity, while a British scholar laments that UK institutions prefer Americans for Americanists