The week in higher education – 7 January 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Paris at War: 1939-1944, by David Drake
Victoria Harris on a study of the occupied city that makes powerful use of diary entries
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Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist
Book of the week: Economic instability is inevitable – what matters is our efforts to limit it, says Victoria Bateman of L. Randall Wray's latest book
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The corrosion of conformity on campus
Joanna Williams discusses student censors, the elevation of subjective experience over ‘facts’ and the need to challenge ideas
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Are blue skies back for Canada’s scientists?
Science suffered restrictions and reductions in funding under the previous government. Will the Trudeau administration put it back on track? Ellie Bothwell investigates
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Grant winners – 7 January 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Scholarly book reviewing: time for a plot twist
We need to wake up and defend this vital practice, not sleepwalk to an unhappy ending, says Lars Fischer
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Curiosity is an inextinguishable creative spark
Not even today’s box-ticking managerialists can stamp out our innate desire to know, says Joe Moran
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Move to metrics may not bring significant savings to REF bill
Another review of the exercise is a chance to revise details of the costs, says Jonathan Grant
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Hunting the wrong witch
The recent resignation of Bob Lambert, a former undercover police officer turned academic, from his two posts at the University of St Andrews and London Metropolitan University after a pressure...