13 February 2020 digital edition
Breaking boundaries: Is interdisciplinarity all it is cracked up to be?
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Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World, by Eva Meijer
Book of the week: Constantine Sandis admires a subtle and judicious analysis of the communications skills of our fellow creatures
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Bad behaviourism: analysing a psychological phenomenon
In 1920, psychologist John Watson described his infamous experiments on an infant in a bid to show that the human mind is a blank slate. A hundred years on, Antonio Melechi examines the rise and fall...
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Books interview: Laurel Leff
Laurel Leff
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Outbreak calls for a people-first response
Universities must meet the disruption caused by the new coronavirus with technological dexterity, tactical flexibility, strategic vision – and compassion
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Skidmore sacked from universities and science post in reshuffle
Boris Johnson’s shake-up ends second of two spells in post for Kingswood MP, with Andrea Leadsom also sacked as business secretary
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The Fall and Rise of Social Housing: 100 Years on 20 Estates, by Becky Tunstall
Danny Dorling is impressed by an in-depth account that challenges much of the received wisdom (and stereotypes) about social housing
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Music in the Present Tense: Rossini’s Italian Operas in Their Time, by Emanuele Senici
Nicholas Till enjoys a detailed analysis of the ‘phenomenal appeal’ of one of the great names in opera
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Students remain in limbo as Australian travel ban extended
Universities scramble to offer ‘targeted solutions’ for Chinese students stranded by coronavirus
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Harvard and Yale threatened by Trump over foreign ties
Ivy League institutions cited as US ramps up higher education offensive
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Interview with Richard Kingsford
The ecologist with more air miles than most on alternative pathways to the professoriate, Australia’s natural boom-bust cycles and whether there is hope for the platypus
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Michael Sovern, 1931-2020
University president who became a New York ‘Living Landmark’ remembered
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HSE University sponsored supplement digital edition
Produced by THE and HSE University. Paid for by HSE University.
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Lack of teaching help for students linked to well-being problems
Analysis of responses to major experience survey suggests teaching factors have bigger influence on mental health than student background
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Polish academics fear Catholic group’s role in ‘free speech’ law
Changes will give platform in universities to anti-abortionists and climate change deniers, claim opponents