Will Europe scoff at England’s two-year degrees?
Increasing the number of fast-track degrees may devalue the currency of UK undergraduate courses in Europe, warns Jack Grove
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The week in higher education – 9 March 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Report predicts significant growth in degree apprenticeships
But UUK calls for universities to be given more support over working courses
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Should Canadian ‘indigenous knowledge’ be open to challenge?
The ‘indigenisation’ of Canada’s academy has had many positives, but some scholars are uneasy about universities’ reluctance to challenge native beliefs about the world, say Rodney Clifton and Gabor...
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Adherence to reason is a moral responsibility
When the US primary season threw up numerous examples of weak and fallacious argument, Michael Ventimiglia thought his time had come. But subsequent events left him grappling with his discipline’s...
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POSTECH head: a university’s ultimate mission is to create value for society
Universities in the US, South Korea and elsewhere must contribute to the advancement of the knowledge-based industries of the 21st century, says Doh-Yeon Kim
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter Scheidel
History would suggest that only violent means lead to less inequality, says Victoria Bateman
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Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You, by Andreas Weigend
Paul Bernal on whether we can simply dismiss privacy concerns in order to embrace the world of big data
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What are you reading? – 9 March 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Two-year degrees? On the road to enlightenment, speed kills
Cramming study into the shortest possible time will impoverish the student experience and drive an even greater wedge between research-enabled permanent staff and the growing underclass of flexible...
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#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media, by Cass R. Sunstein
Book of the week: Americans have to reach out to fight the political division fed by social media, says Angelia Wilson
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Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There, by Rutger Bregman
The groundwork may be set for a shift from selfish, individualistic capitalism, says Danny Dorling
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Moses: A Human Life, by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Robert A. Segal on a exploration of the interior life of the leader who led the Jews out of the desert
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New and noteworthy – 9 March 2017
Africa’s 17th-century warrior queen; the modern equivalent of tinkering in your shed; mergers and acquisitions in the world of HE; and what tax havens really do to the economy