Why journals should not forget their past
Scientific publishing has a noble history of tolerating tiny profits. We need a bit more of that spirit today, suggests Aileen Fyfe
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Digital aids: students reveal ‘benefits’ of technology
High-tech resources are yet to transform the nature of university learning, and often it is the ‘mundane’ use of technologies that aid study
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Why bombs cannot strip Gaza of intellectual life
Writer and scholar Atef Abu Saif tells John Elmes how life goes on despite death from above
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Philosophy’s forgotten women
Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline’s history
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Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping, by Willy Wo-Lap Lam
Jonathan Mirsky on the undistinguished qualities of a president who wants China to ‘learn from Chairman Mao’
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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh, by Stanley Wells
The first act in an entertaining study of gifted stage performers is the most powerful, says Lisa Hopkins
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9 April 2015
Altered state - Drugs on campus from psychedelia to responsible research
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Sir David Bell, Laurence Coupe, Stephen Halliday, June Purvis and Richard Sheldon...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Alice Teichova, 1920-2015
A leading economic historian, whose life was shaped by the upheavals of Eastern European history, has died
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Q&A with Ian Jacobs
We speak to the vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales
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Grant winners – 9 April 2015
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Simon GilbodyInstitution: University of YorkValue: £1,547,169Smoking cessation intervention for severe mental...
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World in brief – 9 April 2015
Source: GettyUnited StatesSpike in cheating claimsStanford University’s provost has written to academics to warn them about an “unusually high number of troubling allegations of academic dishonesty”...
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News in brief – 9 April 2015
Source: UoNannesmartThe Russell GroupNew broom at mission groupThe Russell Group’s next chair will be Sir David Greenaway, vice-chancellor at the University of Nottingham. Sir David will take over at...
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Dem bones, dem bones
Source: GettyScooped: an unfortunate marketing strategyOne of our leading academic contenders for involuntary redundancy, Ted Odgers of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, has apologised...
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The week in higher education – 9 April 2015
The cancelling of a conference on Israel that was due to take place at the University of Southampton this month has prompted uproar among many academics, who say that the decision is stifling freedom...