Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen, by Guy Standing
For those interested in imagining the kind of world we want to live in, Guy Standing’s case for providing all citizens with a basic income makes a convincing read, says Lorenza Antonucci
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Latin American science funding crisis fuels brain drain
Low salaries, excessive bureaucracy and poorly defined research policies add to region’s woes
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Shakespeare’s Fathers and Daughters, by Oliver Ford Davies
An actor’s eye and ear brings fresh insight to aspects of the Bard’s works, says Lisa Hopkins
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The Making of Jane Austen, by Devoney Looser
Shahidha Bari follows the historical trail to see how the author of Pride and Prejudice became the celebrity figure we know today
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The week in higher education – 29 June 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Coventry launches online postgraduate degrees on FutureLearn
University will establish 50 degrees over the next five years
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‘Slow progress’ on widening access to elite English universities
University access watchdog also flags falling numbers of mature and part-time students as ‘grave concern’
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Have-a-go marketers are no heroes
Academics who think they can do the work of professional staff better than professional staff themselves are not showing the kind of respect they expect from others
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Mastering decline
UK universities’ complacency in the good times has left them ill-equipped to respond to falling postgraduate master’s enrolment, says Michelle Morgan
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Castles in the sands of time
Two summers, on the beaches of Greece and in the libraries of New York, define what the “long vac” meant to John Sutherland
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Casual exploitation must become history
The sweatshop conditions in which sessional academics work in Australia mirror the treatment of schoolteachers in Victorian times, say Hannah Forsyth and Jedidiah Evans
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The truth is out there: a philosopher’s journey in Norway
Stephen Mumford tells Matthew Reisz about his desire to bring his discipline to a wider audience, why Norway was the perfect place to write his Cartesian debut novel and why insights into causation...
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What are you reading? – 29 June 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond, by Emily Mayhew
Book of the week: Joanna Bourke on the gruelling truths faced by injured soldiers, and their carers and families