Twice as many students skip all lectures when videos available
Introduction of lecture capture also leads to significant drop in attainment, King’s College London study finds
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Wrangles over measuring teaching quality move Down Under
If the Australian government wants to link university funding to student satisfaction, it must ensure that scores reflect more than students’ gender, wealth or ease of passage, says Julie Hare
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Business schools should be shut down – even if that puts me out of a job
Only a completely new institutional structure will see teaching and research on organisations become a proper, socially responsible subject, and not merely a cash cow, says Martin Parker
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Networked learning requires networked universities
Experts in technology and education must work hand in hand if genuinely innovative teaching is to be delivered in the digital environment, says Simone Buitendijk
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The fight for LGBT equality has not been won
Open prejudice against his sexuality has seen the career of one academic slowly wither
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Will Oakland’s education pledge build a smarter, stronger community?
The Oakland Promise, like a number of local schemes in the US, aims to be a ‘cradle to career’ programme moving more of the city’s children into higher education. John Morgan visits California to...
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Hard to believe, but we belong here: scholars reflect on impostor syndrome
Do you feel you’re just winging it, waiting for the day when your incompetence is exposed? Six academics show that you’re far from alone
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Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century, by Konrad H. Jarausch
Book of the week: memoirs of the Weimar generation are formed into a powerful social history, writes Hester Vaizey
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Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom, by Norman Finkelstein
Neve Gordon lauds a forensic examination of the Palestinian territory and its 2 million inhabitants
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Books editor’s blog: claws out in a race to solve feline mystery
Cat Zero, a novel by Jennifer Rohn, an infectious disease researcher, shines light on the backbiting and tensions of lab life as an unlikely team of scientists work to save the cats of Kent from a...
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Cowboy Christians, by Marie W. Dallam
This study of God and country could ask more questions of its subjects, says Angelia Wilson
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Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement, by Heather Gautney
An insider’s view of the 2016 US election that lacks insight frustrates Lennard Davis
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What are you reading? – 21 June 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Is impostor syndrome taking a stronger grip on the academy’s corduroyed lapels?
Scholars keep feelings of inferiority well cloaked yet self-doubt can strike any of us and only disclosure alleviates the pain of this hidden epidemic