The high costs of courage
Academic whistleblowers face ostracism and curtailed careers until the system fully recognises the value of more transparency
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The week in higher education - 31 July 2014
Barely two weeks after stepping down as minister for universities and science, David Willetts has advocated selling off student debt to universities so that institutions have a “direct financial...
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An ill-advised boycott
Israel’s wall in the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza are aimed at separating Palestinians from Israelis. Tom Hickey and others (“Shift in opinion over boycott in Israel”, Letters, 24 July) want to...
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Stars and stripes
Your analysis in “Lands of opportunity: transatlantic comparison of university investments in spin-offs” (News, 24 July), stating that US universities invest twice as much in research for each spin-...
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News in brief - 31 July 2014
ESRC appointmentElliott unveiled as chief executiveJane Elliott has been unveiled as the next chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council. Professor Elliott is director of the Centre...
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Sighs of the times
As the author of two books forthcoming in the Warwick Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities series, I can confirm – as stated in the article “Writers’ block: description of an academic struggle...
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Disobedient Objects at the V&A: knit your own revolution
Shahidha Bari on a thoughtfully assembled tour of dissent in all its handcrafted, inflatable, gorilla-masked, badge-bedecked glory
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World in brief - 31 July 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesMore join Israel boycott movementThe African Literature Association has become the latest US-based scholarly organisation to back an academic boycott of Israel. A resolution...
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Spain scraps university entrance exam for foreign students
Selectividad test removed in effort to drive up traditionally low number of entrants from abroad
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Campus close-up: Bath Spa University
West Country campus focuses on student exchange schemes and boosting overseas intake
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The Novel: A Biography, by Michael Schmidt
Robert Eaglestone applauds a lively exploration of intertextuality in a work fit for a post-Wikipedia age
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Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England, by Piers J. Hale
Simon Underdown on a meticulously researched analysis of two camps’ opposing arguments over Darwin’s work
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Belief without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious, by Linda A. Mercadante
Kristin Aune discovers the wide-ranging views and behaviour of ‘nones’ - the religiously unaffiliated
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Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes our Loves and Fears, by Gordon H. Orians
Tiffany Taylor on the emotional and aesthetic responses we share with our hominid ancestors