Arthur Kerman, 1929-2017
MIT professor who advised US government on nuclear physics remembered
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Interview with Pippa Rogerson
We talk diversity, the joy of family meals and Professor Stephen Hawking with the new Cambridge college master
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything, by Marcus Chown
Deft hands make light work of the incomplete ‘jigsaw’ that is physics, says Cait MacPhee
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Higher Education in 2040: A Global Approach, by Bert van der Zwaan
A thoughtful study by the head of Utrecht University focuses on the forces reshaping the sector, says David Wheeler
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The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, by David A. Ansell
Clare Bambra commends a polemic that shines a light on the fatal flaws in US healthcare policy
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The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism, by Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij
Matthew Feldman appreciates an enlightening exploration of radicalisation and its causes
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Vice-chancellors get pay hike ‘despite dent in recruitment’
Figures from latest Times Higher Education/Grant Thornton survey highlight ‘arbitrary nature’ of awards, says UCU
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Lecturer barred from job interview ‘for not bringing life’s work’
Peter Cherry knew something was wrong when other applicants arrived in Madrid with several suitcases of documents
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‘Chicken’ university leaders roasted for tame defence of science
Hermann Hauser calls on vice-chancellors to ‘take a stand against pseudoscience’
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A rich patient bled dry
Lots of money is spent on medical education in England – but very little of it goes towards teaching, says Philip Chan
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Times Higher Education v-c pay survey 2017
In our annual survey of vice-chancellors’ pay, which reveals double-digit hikes for some and more modest rises for others, Simon Baker examines how remuneration committees make their decisions amid...
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Grant winners – 15 June 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding