The week in higher education - 13 March 2014
Dozens of students from Indian-controlled Kashmir were suspended from university for cheering Pakistan’s victory over India in a cricket match, The Daily Telegraph reported on 5 March. The students...
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In the frame
This image of a zebrafish embryo was among the finalists of the Wellcome Trust’s annual image awards, which took place earlier this week
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V-cs urged to put data first in race to expand overseas
Analytical, not visionary, mindset may be best protection against a branch campus blunder
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A reading room of one’s own
New space at the LSE for The Women’s Library is the first chapter in exploiting a vast resource
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Cambridge postdocs should be given ‘stronger identity’
Early career researchers to be represented on university committees
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Campus close-up: Falmouth University
A specialist multi-arts university aims to help its students to become entrepreneurial
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When reform needs reform
More freedom to select students has not been an unalloyed good in China, says Hong Bing
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Industry need sparks a rise in teaching aid from firms
But some fear large gifts from US companies may dictate universities’ curricula
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Under fire: bearing witness to assaults on the academy
A report on global attacks on education also proposes ways to protect the sector
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A chance to clean up and move forward
The resignation of a rector is an opportunity to tackle corruption in Kosovo’s academy, says Peter Geoghegan
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Ruin Lust
At Tate Britain, Leo Mellor finds potency, fatalism and beauty in depictions of transience, both gradual and cataclysmic
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Barbara Graziosi, Ruth Richardson, Bruce Scharlau, Clare Hemmings and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950, by Marwa Elshakry
Steve Jones considers a reflection on the Origin of Species’ influence on everything (except biology)
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Beautiful Geometry, by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost
Tony Mann admires a book where art and mathematics are in perfect harmony
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Romania’s Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development and the Struggle for Recovery, by Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox and Charles H. Zeanah
A study of children in institutions offers a perspective on the cognitive benefits of parenting, find Mary K. Rothbart and Michael I. Posner