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Pay for the skills you want

I have the greatest respect for my colleague Dame Ann Dowling, but I wonder if industry is being entirely straight with her when it claims to need double the current number of graduate engineers (“...

He scores, in two fields

Your report in The Week in ����Vlog (28 August) on the student turned professional footballer and the possibility of his prize-winning essay being published (“surely the first academic...

The power of the eternals

Perhaps Greek universities should be wary of removing their “eternals” (News, 4 September). Was it not the Eternals who enabled the Greeks to defeat their Persian counterparts, the Immortals, at the...

A haven for the hungover

I enjoyed Dale Salwak’s feature “Make a class a haven” (18 September). How innovative to create a space without the distractions of talking, groupwork and computers, and with bare walls and soft...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 25 September 2014

Israeli scholars asked to drop Ariel University affiliation

Academics from controversial university were due to present papers at the European Association of Israel Studies’ annual conference

Half of all new PhDs undertaken are in the sciences

Almost half of all students starting PhDs are working in the physical sciences, the biological sciences or engineering and technology fields

Fall in top A-level applicants gives BTEC entrants a boost

Ucas shows more high-tariff places going to those with vocational qualifications

Buying their way to the top

Tackling inequality and broadening access to higher education has knock-on benefits for the whole of society

The Trilobite Book: A Visual Journey, by Riccardo Levi-Setti

Euan Clarkson admires an exquisite collection of images of an iconic arthropod’s fossil traces

Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays, by Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean

Peter J. Smith applauds a study of an innovative company of actors and their influence on Elizabethan theatre

Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, by Jordana Moore Saggese

Tracey Warr on an examination of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work – his inspirations and his relationship to artistic and ideological debates of the late 20th century

Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago, by Lawrence Ralph

Dick Hobbs on an ethnographic study exploring the resilience of youths whose lives have been marred by violence

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy, by Francis Fukuyama

Roger Morgan on an exploration of the current state of our political institutions

UCL network to flag up struggles of junior staff

Group to lobby coalition to highlight plight of well educated but broke early career researchers