What we should ask on student feedback forms
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the inanity of questionnaires assessing teaching
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What a bunch of amateurs
Andrew Morgan laments “the continuing scandal that students are asked to pay £3,000 a term to be taught by amateur staff lacking any significant training in the theory or practice of teaching,...
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Handmaiden’s tale
Your review of Helen Small’s The Value of the Humanities summarises the five main arguments made in support of the discipline (“Calm voice lauds humanities’ part in public conversation”, News, 26...
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Asking for it
It is hardly surprising that the pace of growth in anglophone taught master’s courses offered in continental Europe is picking up (“A warm Euro welcome - and in English, too”, News, 10 October).For...
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Dawning diversification
We noted with interest your article on the Athena SWAN charter and its mounting influence on UK academia, including plans to extend the scheme beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
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Thorny fact-checking
It is surprising that Marianne Elliott thinks that criticism of the late Peter Hart’s research is “vilification” (“No word for what we’re doing”, Books, 3 October). ߣߣƵ has twice...
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Spirits of the market
Your piece on essay mills is a little harsh (“We can write it for you wholesale”, 10 October): after all, they simply satisfy a demand in an education market. In the same way, ghostwriters, often...
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Paul Klee: Making Visible
Alex Danchev delights in Tate Modern’s finely chosen feast of delicacies from the table of Paul Klee
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Graham Farmelo, Emma Griffin, Andrew Hadfield, Tim Hall and Jan Marsh...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered, by Cynthia Enloe
Gwendolyn Beetham on what we can learn from observations of society’s dismissal of women
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Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware, by Paul Atkinson
John Gilbey is reunited with fondly remembered computer hardware that never achieved market success
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Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-18, by Emily Mayhew
A. W. Purdue is moved by the stories of the medical personnel who saved lives at the Western Front
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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England, by Sara Read
Helen Fulton looks at social attitudes to women’s monthly cycle in the 16th to 18th centuries
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Power, Powerlessness and Addiction, by Jim Orford
Philip Murphy on an analysis of addictions, to both legal and illegal substances, with respect to the role of power
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Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation, by Estelle B. Freedman
Joanna Bourke on a meticulous analysis of the responses of civil rights movements to sexual violence against women and girls