Climate of confusion
David Petley from the University of East Anglia confuses two separate issues in his comments about open access to data (“Beware ‘nefarious’ use of open data, summit hears”, News, 11 July). The “...
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While there is a need to ensure that students are not cheated or misled, the Competition and Markets Authority and the reaction to its statements are removing the ability of lecturers to alter degree...
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Universities, AI and the shake-up of things to come
Institutions planning for the future would be wise to talk to one of their artificial intelligence researchers
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Interview with Philip Moriarty
We talk about the impenetrability of physics, the problem with Psi and “corporate uni bollocks”
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UK ‘should learn from’ NZ’s example of arresting loan defaulters
Hepi report looks at New Zealand’s lessons for UK on overseas loan defaults and private expansion problems
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Anthropology atlas opens up new vistas for research
The D-PLACE tool means anthropologists and historians can finally statistically test theories about what shapes human culture and society
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QAA reviews raise questions over sector expansion plans
Smaller, newer alternative providers are less likely to pass higher education review, analysis says
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars, by Nathalia Holt
Book of the week: Meet the human computers in heels who juggled science and family, says Margaret A. Weitekamp
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What are you reading? – 28 July 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, by Robert H. Frank
An economist explains to the rich that they didn’t build that, Danny Dorling writes
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My Grandmother’s Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry, by Craig Raine
David Gewanter on a poet’s turning his telltale gaze to works of verse and makers of muddled readings and purveyors of ‘balonium’
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Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel, by Dov Waxman
Projecting their hopes and fears on to Israel has polarised Jews in the US, says William Kolbrener