Reading matters: why we’re bringing freshers to book
Paul Greatrix on exposing an entire cohort to an American pedagogical classic, the common reading programme, and a classic American novelÂ
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THE Awards: you’ve got to be in it to win it
As we open for entries to the ‘Oscars of UK higher education’, editor John Gill reflects on the diversity that makes the THE Awards special
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Still room for improvement
Matthew Reisz reflects on the testimonies of gay academics about how the academy has changed and needs to change more
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Harry Kroto – the interstellar chemist
A former colleague pays tribute to Nobel prizewinner Sir Harold Kroto, who has died aged 76
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THE podcast: 5-11 May 2016 issue review
The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by our editorial team
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Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present, by Timothy D. Taylor
Hillegonda Rietveld on the consequences of a cultural shift from musical creativity to profit
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The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739-1841, by Stephen Gaukroger
Jane O’Grady on the development of empirical investigation in attempts to understand human behaviour
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New and noteworthy – 5 May 2016
Edtech unhyped, Nigerian noir, hard-bodied prose and squaring heavens above with those urges below: must-read academic books
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A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain, by Christina Crosby
Joanna Bourke on a memoir focusing on secrets, grief and desire following a life-changing accident
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The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science, by Jan Golinski
Richard Joyner on a biography seeking to reveal the chemist’s talent for reinvention
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What are you reading? – 5 May 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren
Book of the week: A spirited palaeobotanist’s memoir splices flora with friendship and family, says Cait MacPhee
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The battle for the Indian mind
What do protests at the University of Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru University tell us about India’s ‘messy democracy’?
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Shutting apprenticeships to graduates is unfair and cruel
Young people and employers are ill served by the government’s divisive move, which creates an unlevel playing field, argues Philip Cowan
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Grant winners – 5 May 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash