The week in higher education – 23 July 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Building the perfect beast
As the sector debates the design of a teaching-ometer, campuses wait to discover the strength of the TEF’s power over fee levels
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Can dressing down harm your career?
Dress to impress if you want students in your corner, claims US study
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Ernest Kuh, 1928-2015
A leading expert on electronic circuit theory who spent his whole career at Berkeley has died
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Campus close-up: Tinkering helps to dial in the joy of learning
Making radios in London Met’s masterclasses gets children on the university wavelength
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Q&A with Aare Afe Babalola
We talk to the lawyer, academic, former pro-chancellor and founder of a private university in Nigeria
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The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life, by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski
Janet Sayers is left nonplussed by a psychology text that raises more questions than answers
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Auditions: Architecture and Aurality, by Rob Stone
A journey into ‘sound design’ strikes discordant tones: Richard J. Williams is all ears
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, by Frank Wilczek
Cait MacPhee on the role of aesthetics in physical exploration
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Would students accept fees varying by subject?
Epigram editor Zaki Dogliani explores whether students would accept different prices for different courses
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Is flexible working holding back women’s careers?
The way universities perceive and handle flexible hours is an area for improvement, says a joint report by employers and unions
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Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation, by Jeff Scheible
A lively interrogation of the Mafia overlord of marks and associates is illuminating, finds Poppy Corbett
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Race on the QT: Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino, by Adilifu Nama
Like the American director’s work, this study is provocative, at turns brilliant, frustrating and far-fetched, says Cara Caddoo