‘Biased’ students give BME academics lower NSS scores, says study
University of Reading research finds link between undergraduate satisfaction and ethnicity of lecturers
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HEA subscription fees to double for most universities
Shake-up at teaching organisation will also see academics charged a membership fee and required to complete CPD if they want to remain fellows
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Making music from physics: a different kind of composer-in-residence
Drew Mulholland explains how his unique role at the University of Glasgow is at the heart of cross-disciplinary conversations
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Interview with Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze
We talk to the French academic and novelist about her ambitions in nuclear physics and REF fatigue
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Is a postgraduate degree necessary to get a job?
Victoria Halman investigates how employers view the growing trend for graduates to take a second qualification to help them land a first job
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Chris Clegg, 1948-2015
One of Britain’s leading organisational psychologists has died
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What future for women in Chinese higher education?
A paper argues that China’s one-child policy helped women to break into higher education. With the demise of the policy, could female progress go into reverse?
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Ruskin inspires Salford academic to improve virtual landscapes
Walking in the countryside could prove inspirational for those creating computer games, says scholar
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Corporate sponsorship ‘risks turning food research into a marketing exercise’
Warning comes after stories about Coca-Cola’s spending on science hit the headlines last year
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The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London, by Nile Green
Persian migrants’ tales illuminate the attitudes and culture of Regency era, says Shahidha Bari
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Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor, by Ronald P. Formisano
Danny Dorling on a study of predatory forces and questionable practices
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Books interview: Frank Trentmann
Shelf life: The historian and author of Empire of Things on Karl May, Fernand Braudel, Elena Ferrante and the enduring pleasures of atlases and dictionaries
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Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action, by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott?Hale and Taha Yasseri
Organising and agitating online can be a powerful mover of change, Ivor?Gaber finds
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The Paradox of Evolution: The Strange Relationship between Natural Selection and Reproduction, by Stephen Rothman
Tiffany Taylor on a thought-provoking view of the forces acting to ensure survival
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What are you reading? –?21 January 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers