The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, by Christopher J. Lebron
Protest movement against racial oppression in US belongs to a long tradition, says Martin Myers
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What are you reading? – 7 September 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 7 September 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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THE Awards 2017: shortlist announced
List of finalists for the ‘Oscars’ of the higher education sector released
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UK universities are national treasures that need care and attention
Britain has a remarkably strong higher education system that makes it a world-leading player, and it requires tending, not trashing
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India is right to reset its goals for universities
The news about India’s shelving its foreign universities “pipe dream” in favour of the creation of new domestic “institutions of eminence” (“India shelves its foreign universities ‘pipe dream’”, News...
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Admin’s burdens
I wonder whether “another academic”, whose letter “State of the uni” bemoaned the “ludicrous amount of paperwork” in UK higher education (Letters, 24 August), could be induced to divulge which...
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Lower order letters
In her review of Janet Sorensen’s Strange Vernaculars, Elspeth Jajdelska says the book “explains how the speech of criminals, provincials, the labouring classes and sailors was recreated in print to...
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Structural break
Emma Rees rightly pleads for a summer holiday away from “Lacan, Kristeva and Foucault too…” (“Crumbs of comfort on the beach”, 24 August). Don’t we all need a break as well from Saussure, the father...
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Predatory journals a ‘global problem’, study warns
Research reveals majority of authors publishing in illegitimate journals come from wealthy countries
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‘Predatory’ journals: the situation is urgent, so why don’t we fight back?
The solutions to the predatory publishing problem are known, we just need to implement them, say Larissa Shamseer and David Moher
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Let students take phones into exams, says Harvard professor
Eric Mazur, father of the ‘flipped classroom’, says rethinking assessment is the next frontier