Books editor鈥檚 blog: stand up for deviants and oddballs
The contributions to come from a conference held last year at the threatened Central European University and discuss why it鈥檚 so vital to defend the academy鈥檚 core values
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What are you reading? 鈥 15 February 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Cheating death: books will enjoy many afterlives
It is not an uncommon experience these days for one to exclaim 鈥渟eriously?鈥 at something that seems too absurd to even contemplate, and that is exactly what I found myself thinking while reading Al...
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Support act
Work-related stress in the context of 鈥渘on-academic鈥 and administrative support roles could be addressed more aptly in the 鈥済lobal work-life balance survey鈥 (鈥淕et a life? No time for that!鈥, Features...
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Status anxiety
Hell hath no fury like a professional deprofessionalised by ambitious, managerial, neoliberal, corporate, robotic order-followers ( 鈥淗ell hath no fury like an 鈥╝cademic suspended鈥 , Opinion, 8...
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California鈥檚 drought
On reading 鈥淯S state systems freeze tuition fees as enrolment falters鈥 (News, 8 February), my thoughts turned to California. For 100 years (from 1868 to 1967), the state鈥檚 taxpayers funded the zero-...
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Forever young
In the biographical sketch of Kori Schake, the author of Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony ( 鈥淲hen Britannia waived its rule鈥 , Books, 8 February), Matthew Reisz writes...
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THE to launch new innovation ranking
League table may include metrics on university spin-off companies and research publications co-authored with industry
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拢6K fees 鈥榗ould leave English universities 拢3.3 billion poorer鈥
Lower sticker price for degrees would do nothing to help poorer students, says London Economics analysis
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Colombian students stage miniskirt protest over 鈥榮exist鈥 advice
Pontifical Bolivarian University told students not to 鈥榙istract鈥 classmates and teachers with low necklines, short skirts or tight-fitting clothes
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Israel approves West Bank settlement university law
New legislation will extend Israeli law to academic institutions in the West Bank
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Senior Nasa scientist jailed in Turkey on terrorism charges
US Department of State 鈥榙eeply concerned鈥 over lack of evidence against Serkan G枚lge
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European universities fight to save rare subjects
Rare disciplines face a multitude of threats but are key to the biodiversity of academia, advocates say