The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia, by Liam Matthew Brockey
Ana Carolina Hosne on a 17th-century figure who had ‘imperial ambitions’ for the Society of Jesus
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea, by Robert Wald Sussman
Racial structure is cemented by theories on the fixed nature of the ‘other’, finds Yolanda T. Moses
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From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of our Solar System, by John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton
Cait MacPhee on an examination of current theories about our history
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The Republic of Imagination: A Case for Fiction, by Azar Nafisi
Shahidha Bari on a collection of essays concentrating on four American writers
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Loving Literature: A Cultural History, by Deidre Shauna Lynch
Untangling our emotional commitment to books is a complicated affair, says Deborah Rogers
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The Icon Curtain: The Cold War’s Quiet Border, by Yulia Komska
Hester Vaizey on the political and religious divisions across a lesser known part of the Iron Curtain
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Common People: The History of an English Family, by Alison Light
Clare Griffiths on a fresh perspective of social and public history through the author’s personal investigation of her own genealogy
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Warwick academics ‘treated like City traders’ with financial targets
UCU official attacks redundancy criteria at the university amid calls to reverse ‘dangerous’ process
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Time to test private colleges' efficiency
Andrew McGettigan considers the findings of the National Audit Office’s investigation into alternative providers
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Poppleton college slammed
Poppleton’s leading private for-profit higher education college, the Great British College of Business, Computing, Technology and Management, has been “shamed” in a new report from the government’s...
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Coherent higher education policy? Far from it
Despite the introduction of postgraduate loans, the government’s education funding aims remain a puzzle, says Nigel Carrington
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It’s our duty to assess the costs of the REF
As we await the results of the research excellence framework 2014, it is time to reflect. The basic idea of identifying and directing research funding towards excellence must be right. Few would...
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Open days seen from the other side
Christopher Phelps views universities through new eyes when he accompanies his daughter on a tour of UK campuses
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Researcher volunteers for moral duty on Ebola’s front line
Shunmay Yeung of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine describes her part in fighting the viral outbreak in Sierra Leone
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Six trends in campus design
Landmarks, ‘starchitecture’, green reuse, city-centre strategies: Chris Parr on forces shaping the sector’s bricks and mortar