University scraps study abroad target ‘to focus on quality and diversity’
University of Minnesota says 50 per cent outbound mobility goal ‘outgrew its usefulness’
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Universities told to increase diversity to tackle sexual violence
Psychologist says that more women, minority groups and international students should be part of structures that tackle sexual misconduct
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Joseph Stiglitz: education effort on post-war scale needed for AI
Nobel laureate warns of greater inequality and ‘new era of fascism’ if AI impact on work not ‘managed’
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‘Hyperprolific’ academics ‘don’t meet author criteria’ – study
Analysis shows thousands of researchers publish the equivalent of one paper every five days, but their involvement is often limited
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European universities failing to report clinical trial results
Thirty-two academic institutions have so far failed to report any of their trial data in accordance with new European Union rules
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Lack of instant impact is not failure
Asking social scientists to demonstrate academic impact ignores the messy reality of political lobbying, says Matthew Flinders
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Denial: The Unspeakable Truth, by Keith Kahn-Harris
Book of the week: It is not so hard to tell when people are lying, says Robert Eaglestone, of an unconvincing analysis
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American Originality: Essays on Poetry, by Louise Glück
Louise Glück’s timeless essays about poetry are piquant declarations, writes David Gewanter
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Art and Authority: Moral Rights and Meaning in Contemporary Visual Art, by K. E. Gover
This discussion of in what sense an artist owns their artwork is at its most interesting when discussing the paradoxes of ‘appropriation art’, says Jane O’Grady
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Books editor’s blog: don’t panic – a thinking person’s guide to today
Yuval Noah Harari, having done the past and the future, offers us 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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Can universities beat contract cheating?
As students increasingly turn to essay mills to do their work, Anna McKie explores what drives this global trend and how universities are fighting it
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Learning gain: political expedient or meaningful measurement?
The political craving for simple measures of learning gain is neither pedagogically informed nor sufficiently nuanced. Four academics argue that only by changing focus will the concept become useful
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Medieval Sensibilities: A History of Emotions in the Middle Ages, by Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy
Becket’s murder is dissected in a study of 1,000 years of the Christian West, says Rachel Moss
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Gypsies: An English History, by David Cressy
R. C. Richardson on a study that spans five centuries of history and takes in culture, caravans and ‘badger ham’
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What are you reading? – 13 September 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers