Language is not the issue
As someone whose job it is to teach English for academic purposes, and who works with international students at higher education level, I read with interest the article “Scholars highlight inadequate...
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Lessons from Ebola crisis
During the Ebola outbreak in 2014, Peter Piot made a cogent comment on the role of academics in response to a global crisis (“There is a ‘moral responsibility’ to go out and stop Ebola in Africa”,...
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For-profits in Brazil fight rule change
Cut in support for private study has share prices falling
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UCL’s Magnus keeps blood flow research innovations in-house
Start-up aims to sidestep big pharmaceutical firms by developing its lab discoveries inside the university’s walls. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Soldiers of the NFL
American football is a contemporary moral equivalent of war, says Alan Ryan
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Lives and loves of geniuses
Recent films fail to recognise the support women give to famous male artists or scientists, says Mary Evans
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Universities at War, by Thomas Docherty
This powerful polemic should be in every undergraduate’s welcome pack, says Mary Evans
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Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation, by Michael Harris
Tony Mann discovers the charisma of mathematicians
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans, by Malcolm Gaskill
Donald M. MacRaild on the English colonists’ determination to hold on to their identity in the New World
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Neuroscience for Leadership: Harnessing the Brain Gain Advantage, by Tara Swart, Kitty Chisholm and Paul Brown
A manual for ambitious executives is dangerously close to spreading neuromyths, says Steven Rose
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Enemy in the East: Hitler’s Secret Plans to Invade the Soviet Union, by Rolf-Dieter Müller
Robert Gellately on an examination of the role of the Wehrmacht leadership
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Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein, by John Launer
Janet Sayers admires a detective-like tale of the psychoanalyst and her involvement with Jung and Freud
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Universities find it difficult to grasp China’s dream
Has the Chinese government’s sophisticated message to its higher education sector come at the cost of clarity? asks Mike Gow
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Which? decries ‘unlawful’ terms in small print
A report on university course changes by the consumer watchdog caused a stir this week
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Show that aid to poor works or lose it, says Hefce head
Madeleine Atkins says student opportunity funding ‘will go’ unless government can see a ‘return on investment’