Private college ‘took public money but failed on quality’
QAA finds lax entry standards at Cardiff college formerly led by principal with ‘falsified’ PhD
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
It is focused and deliberate practice that leads to expertise, not natural ability, says Philip Roscoe
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What are you reading? – 9 June 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen, by Aileen M. Kelly
Robin Feuer Miller on a 19th-century Russian who was part of a line of thinkers from Francis Bacon to Charles Darwin
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Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism, by Barnabas Calder
Annmarie Adams revels in the bunker mentality of an architectural enthusiast who sees the glory of grey
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The Dancing Bees and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language, by Tania Munz
Richard Joyner on the Austrian scientist Karl von Frisch, who discovered and deciphered bees’ communicative choreography
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New and noteworthy – 9 June 2016
Rosa Luxemburg's letters, godless Americans, womanist ways and an anthropologist among the undergraduates: must-read monographs
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More English students think degree was poor value for money
Concerns over low contact hours and delays in handing back assignments loom large in Hepi/HEA survey
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Ethnic minority students less satisfied with university experience
BME learners rate teaching less positively and may lose out by living at home, Hepi-HEA survey finds
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The week in higher education – 9 June 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world's media
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The HE bill will sweep away self-regulation of standards. Whose fault is that?
The Office for Students will kill off institutional autonomy, says Geoffrey Alderman, and the sector has only itself to blame
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Which should I choose: my postdoc or my child?
Elena Tobolkina got the job opportunity of a lifetime at Oxford, but the cost of childcare and housing took it away
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Grant winners – 9 June 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 9 June 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Student evaluations of teaching: no measure for the TEF
The National Student Survey, one of the pillars of the TEF, is more likely to measure enjoyment than learning, says Wolfgang Stroebe