Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today, by Ilana Gershon
Job hunting? Like it or loathe it, LinkedIn is key and emotional labour is mandatory, says Philip Roscoe
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How big data is helping to close the student retention gap
Data, and the increasingly sophisticated way it is martialled, has enabled remarkable improvements in graduation rates and quality of education
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Books interview: Shlomo Sand
The author of 'Twilight of History' on growing up with tales of the Wild West, learning how to do history and deconstructing Jewish and Israeli mythologies
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Â鶹 truths about the Home Office
What should have been a straightforward application for leave to remain in the UK turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare for University of St Andrews’ lecturer Emily Michelson, whose research trip to...
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Hungary’s targeting of the Central European University is shameful
The American-Hungarian institution proves that learning through diversity is not an impossible dream, says Marvin Lazerson
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Grant winners – 13 April 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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How do universities use big data?
From personalising tuition to performance management, the use of data is increasingly driving how institutions operate
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Education is key to integration
While universities in parts of the West worry about immigration crackdowns, favourable political winds are allowing Canada’s institutions to flourish
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The week in higher education - 13 April 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Accentuating the positive in negative results
It is good to see greater encouragement and support of researchers in communicating negative results (“Stop binning negative results, researchers told”, News, 29 March). A number of journals,...
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Laurie Taylor – 13 April 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Survey flaws
While readers should be encouraged by some of the changes made to the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey (23 March), it remains deeply flawed. It is honest that you admit (even if only...