Dundee principal suspended ‘over rent row’
Andrew Atherton placed on leave after just nine months in post
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The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
Book of the week: Angelia Wilson applauds a bold new analysis of how the Republican Party’s determination to appeal to patriarchal, racist and religious voters reshaped politics in the US
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Books interview: Nicholas Buccola
The author of The Fire Is upon Us on childhood obsessions, racial identity and the power of primary sources
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Difficult times for international students in the US
International students have long been central to American research, innovation and knowledge exchange. Yet today a combination of changing legislation, regulation and attitudes is excluding many and...
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Glasgow to rate ‘collegiality’ for professorial promotions
University believes new criteria rewarding selfless behaviour will ‘focus minds’
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Joan Petersilia, 1951-2019
Tributes paid to ‘a committed visionary’ whose research and lobbying helped transform the Californian legal system
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Students fail to spot simple calculator errors
Researcher says experiment demonstrates that students mistake benefits of technology for increase in ‘internal ability’ to solve problems
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UK students spending less time studying, says survey
Less than half of undergraduates now spend 11 or more hours a week in classes, according to Advance HE study
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Kurds fear ‘displacement’ by Turkey’s Syria campuses plan
Ankara may be seeking long-term presence in Syria through campuses that will bring influx of non-Kurdish refugees, according to experts
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The week in higher education – 31 October 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Ghost stories can inspire teaching tricks
Look to uncanny ghost walks for new ways to engage students in difficult topics, say four urban researchers
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Failing better: How to live with academic rejection
Academics’ deep identification with their work means that the failure of a book proposal, grant application or promotion request can cut deeply. But in a competitive profession, such knock-backs are...
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Interview with Daniel Markovits
The Yale Law School professor discusses the ‘sham’ of meritocracy, the damage the idea causes and why elite universities are part of the problem
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Careers intelligence: why be a head of department?
Negative perceptions surround the head’s role, but those who have taken up the challenge speak of a range of benefits, write Navé Wald and Clinton Golding
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Superscoring standardised admission tests will supersize advantage
Allowing university applicants to retake specific sections of the ACT will aid only those able to afford tutors and multiple test fees, says Anthony P. Carnevale