Books editor’s blog: politician in search of the real Adam Smith
Conservative MP Jesse Norman’s nuanced consideration of Smith’s ideology is badly needed in today’s polarised political climate
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Some Other Note: The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy, by Ross W. Duffin
Rediscovering long-forgotten music from plays requires some imagination, finds John Jowett
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In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England, by Keith Thomas
Codes that define appropriate human interaction make it possible for people to live together peacefully, observes Ann Hughes
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What are you reading? – 12 July 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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UK’s Brexit White Paper plans for ‘temporary’ researcher mobility
Government document fails to offer universities reassurance, sector critics warn
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THE Latin America University Rankings 2018: methodology
The performance indicators used in the World University Rankings are the bedrock of all our tables. But as every region is unique, we make some recalibrations to reflect this in our Latin America...
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Javid: foreign staff can strike without risking right to remain
鶹 secretary offers clarity in wake of UK university pensions walkout
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Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion, by J. H. Elliott
Book of the week: Donald MacRaild on the parallels and differences between two would-be independent states
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Those who can
The article “Mr Chips with everything?” (Features, 5 July) explored the relationship between research and teaching. When I was invited for an interview for an undergraduate place at University...
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Poor Australian success rates blamed on low funding, not bad bids
‘Productivity boom’ shows researchers are not the problem, universities say
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Prestigious European universities have ‘worst gender balance’
Analysis of THE data finds high publication output and reputation negatively correlated with staff gender balance
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UK’s biomedical research funding ‘bubble’ is ‘about to burst’
Call to rebalance funding away from sciences and towards social sciences
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Social media: the good, the bad and the ugly
With about one-third of Earth’s 7 billion inhabitants on a social network, it is an inevitable part of scholars’ lives. While many academics find Twitter and Facebook useful means of disseminating...
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Can India’s private universities deliver?
The public sector has not expanded quickly enough to meet the demand for college degrees in India