Eduard Sekler, 1920-2017
Architectural historian who spent most of his career at Harvard remembered
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Yale president shares vision of an āempatheticā university
The inventor of the concept of emotional intelligence explains how the idea can be built into the culture of universities
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Interview with Ashley Fure
We talk about academia as a refuge for artists, curtailed basketball careers, and escaping Michiganās āshireā with the multifaceted music composer
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Netherlands and Singapore among leaders on education research
Bibliometric data suggest link to performance of nations' education systems, although academic warns against drawing simple conclusions
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The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, by Peter Temin
A divided nation where the rich rule the working poor is not limited to fiction, finds Nicola Ingram
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Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen, by Guy Standing
For those interested in imagining the kind of world we want to live in, Guy Standingās case for providing all citizens with a basic income makes a convincing read, says Lorenza Antonucci
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Latin American science funding crisis fuels brain drain
Low salaries, excessive bureaucracy and poorly defined research policies add to regionās woes
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Shakespeareās Fathers and Daughters, by Oliver Ford Davies
An actorās eye and ear brings fresh insight to aspects of the Bardās works, says Lisa Hopkins
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The Making of Jane Austen, by Devoney Looser
Shahidha Bari follows the historical trail to see how the author of Pride and Prejudice became the celebrity figure we know today
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The week in higher education ā 29 June 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the worldās media
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Coventry launches online postgraduate degrees on FutureLearn
University will establish 50 degrees over the next five years
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āSlow progressā on widening access to elite English universities
University access watchdog also flags falling numbers of mature and part-time students as āgrave concernā
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Have-a-go marketers are no heroes
Academics who think they can do the work of professional staff better than professional staff themselves are not showing the kind of respect they expect from others
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Mastering decline
UK universitiesā complacency in the good times has left them ill-equipped to respond to falling postgraduate masterās enrolment, says Michelle Morgan
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Castles in the sands of time
Two summers, on the beaches of Greece and in the libraries of New York, define what the ālong vacā meant to John Sutherland