THE podcast: 9-15 June 2016 issue review podcast
The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team
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Universities told to pay record compensation to students
OIA says recommended payouts topped £485,000 in 2015 despite reduction in the number of cases
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John Benyon, 1951-2016
A political scientist who made a major contribution to criminology and the study of public order has died
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Interview with Parvati Raghuram
We talk migration, being an academic outsider and Brexit with the RGS award winner
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How things have changed for female academics
Myra Strober’s rejection in 1970 for a tenure-track position inspired a lifetime of struggle against sexism
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Private college ‘took public money but failed on quality’
QAA finds lax entry standards at Cardiff college formerly led by principal with ‘falsified’ PhD
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
It is focused and deliberate practice that leads to expertise, not natural ability, says Philip Roscoe
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What are you reading? – 9 June 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen, by Aileen M. Kelly
Robin Feuer Miller on a 19th-century Russian who was part of a line of thinkers from Francis Bacon to Charles Darwin
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Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism, by Barnabas Calder
Annmarie Adams revels in the bunker mentality of an architectural enthusiast who sees the glory of grey
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The Dancing Bees and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language, by Tania Munz
Richard Joyner on the Austrian scientist Karl von Frisch, who discovered and deciphered bees’ communicative choreography
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New and noteworthy – 9 June 2016
Rosa Luxemburg's letters, godless Americans, womanist ways and an anthropologist among the undergraduates: must-read monographs
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EU referendum: scholars weigh case for and against Brexit
Public debate in the UK over whether to remain in the EU has been criticised for casting little light. Here, seven academics probe the arguments
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More English students think degree was poor value for money
Concerns over low contact hours and delays in handing back assignments loom large in Hepi/HEA survey