Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education by Roger Brown, with Helen Carasso
Joanna Williams commends a rigorous analysis of the impact of funding changes on the sector
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American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Céleste Marie-Bernier admires an original approach to a shameful period in US history
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Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering by Clive Hamilton
Steve Yearley assesses a timely critique of controversial plans to manage climate change
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Speaking of Race and Class: The Student Experience at an Elite College by Elizabeth Aries, with Richard Berman
Ann Mullen is intrigued by the findings, but would have enjoyed more analysis
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Image Warfare in the War on Terror by Nathan Roger
Neville Bolt on how states and militaries fail to grasp the changing role of media in our lives
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Working-time culture: no need for taught CVs
I sympathise with Steve Sarson (“Students are sent to the rat race maze: syllabus is history”, Opinion, 21 March). Like him, I teach history undergraduates and I agree that it is improper for...
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Open the floodgates
“Fools’ gold? (14 February) is an excellent and perceptive summary of the extant open-access proposals. Let me declare now that I am an editor of an Elsevier journal that currently runs on the...
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Knee-squeeze reaction
Why did Felipe Fernández-Armesto feel the need to begin his article on sex scandals in higher education by describing a former student as “Statuesque. Stunning. Spectacular,” before suggesting “more...
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Access dividends
In regards to “QAA highlights problems with UK accounting degree” (News, 21 March): I felt it was important to address three points.First, students are deemed as registered on the BSc programme on...
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Truly avant-garde
I was disappointed with the reader responses to “Lines of investigation” and “Opus versus output”, your articles about artistic practice as research (7 March). Of the two professors emeritus numbered...
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Real-world concerns
The Financial Times’ Michael Skapinker queries the effectiveness of online lectures (The week in higher education, 21 March): “how long are people watching before they flip to Facebook?” As anyone...
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Fragile position
Chris Ormell, with his “key incoherencies that have quietly enabled so much palpable retrogression” (“Infinite regression”, Letters, 21 March), seems to have forgotten that people who live in glass...
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21 - 27 March 2013 - The week in higher education
Anyone familiar with the views of Edzard Ernst may be surprised to learn that he was on the board of the journal Homeopathy. But this cognitive dissonance was ended last week when the journal sacked...
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A greater currency than cash
When pension pots are full, generosity would fit the zeitgeist better than salary top-ups
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Build local networks to capture EU cash
Better regional R&D strategies needed to access structural funds, sector told.