Yale-NUS College extends reach of liberal arts’ ‘forbidden fruits’
Jack Grove reports from official inauguration of campus that reflects Singapore’s growing demand for Western-style higher education
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A more divided union? Student voice ‘at risk’ in NUS power struggle
President Megan Dunn faces battle over campaigning tactics as leftwingers increase power
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Northumbria University the latest to draw back on language provision
Further cuts to modern languages departments have raised concerns about increasing elitism
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Enter the Dark Would and let your imagination run free
New learning space at University of Warwick aims to let students and academics explore issues in a more creative and curiosity-driven fashion
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Papers retracted after authors used unauthorised data from junior researchers
Cases underscore concerns about use of younger researchers’ work by senior colleagues without permission
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Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story, by Randy Olson
Researchers must tell a good tale about their work without skewing the science, Cait?MacPhee says
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Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives, by Karin Wieland
A highly readable study traces how both women became part of cultural and political networks that shaped the 20th century, writes Ulrike Zitzlsperger
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Remaking History: The Past in?Contemporary Historical Fictions, by Jerome de Groot
The question of whether fictional representations of the past can offer as much insight as scholarly histories is tackled with verve, says Philip?Kemp
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World, by Michael Marmot
Inequality in income lowers the life expectancy of everyone in society, says Marcus Chown
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Pure Intelligence: The Life of William Hyde Wollaston, by Melvyn C. Usselman
Richard Joyner on a remarkable but forgotten chemist
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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, by James Shapiro
Lisa Hopkins on a defining time in the Bard’s career
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The Con Men: Hustling in New York City, by Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton
From living rent-free to Madoff’s fraud, a study of scams forces us to face our sins, says Dick Hobbs
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What are you reading? – 22 October 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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How my love of Janá?ek led to a role in the Cold War
Nicholas Till on how his love for the Czech composer led to his bringing back more than LPs from Soviet-dominated Prague
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Africa’s ‘teaching shops’: the rise of private universities
Are the continent’s for-profits exploiting students or have they helped to widen access?, asks Chris Havergal