Canada urged to prize human capital over research output
Universities should use federal budget boost to help companies keep innovating, not to do it themselves, top science policy expert says
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How communities of practice can help improve your teaching
Teachers coming together to share learning strategies and mentor each other can prevent burnout and jump-start professional growth, says Valencia Gabay
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Island hopping: life at the West Indies’ multi-country university
University of the West Indies plans to use its experience working across its own varied nations to boost its standing overseas
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Reproducibility of research is critical for open science and open Britain
Science that is robust and reproducible will stimulate economic growth and social benefits, argue Marcus Munafò and Neil Jacobs
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Lecturers struggling to combat essay mills with assessment design
Types of assessment viewed as least susceptible to contract cheating are those least likely to be set by academics, Australian study finds
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When reviewers give you lemons, bench press them
Ben Marder offers early career researchers some advice on how to cope with paper rejections
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Postgraduate numbers plummet amid fears for no-deal Brexit
Leading figures in UK higher education warn sector will ‘take decades to recover’ from no-deal Brexit
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Study ties depression in poorer students to social isolation
Australian researchers recommend 'organic' interventions to support undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Letters – 3 January 2019
Online learning has a friendly human face We applaud Paul Le Blanc’s recognition of the “overlooked majority” of students who carry work, family and other responsibilities with them into their...
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Is US higher education in crisis?
Many observers perceive US higher education to be in trouble. They’re missing the big picture, says Steven Brint
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Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present, by Christopher Harding
Joy Hendry discovers a fascinating account of a century and a half of Japan’s modernisation
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The Promise of the East: Nazi Hopes and Genocide, 1939-43, by Christian Ingrao
An insightful contribution to a crowded field invites us to consider Nazism as a promise to deliver a different kind of society, finds Hester Vaizey
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What are you reading? – 3 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion, by Andrew Briggs, Hans Halvorson and Andrew Steane
Book of the week: if the material world does not exhaust reality, what lies beyond? asks Simon Oliver