THE podcast: 25-31 May 2017 issue review
The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team
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One in three UK universities going backwards on female professorships
New data show proportion of professors who are women has declined at some institutions
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Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World, by Keith Devlin
Tony Mann follows a scholar’s journey to get to the root of a game-changing mathematician
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The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles, by Robert C. Knapp
Robert A. Segal on an overview of religion in the Roman Empire that emphasises the similarities between three belief systems
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An Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, by Christopher Tilley and Kate Cameron-Daum
A corner of England makes its mark on those who leave foot, paw and hoof prints, writes Philip Hoare
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The Idea of the PhD: The Doctorate in the Twenty-First-Century Imagination, by Frances Kelly
Tara Brabazon on an argument that the doctorate is undergoing change
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A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education, by David F. Labaree
Book of the week: Howard Segal on an ‘appreciation’ of an unwieldy creature that is the envy of the world
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What are the hot research areas that might spark the next big bang?
We examine citation data to get an idea of the most exciting and potentially ground-breaking research topics
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Selecting for superficiality
Moves to privilege community service in university admissions will create even more social justice warriors when what we need are more deep thinkers, argues Alexander Zubatov
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Hard sums are unavoidable for universities
Labour’s pledge to axe fees suggests that ever-higher charges may not be inevitable, but tough choices between university priorities seem unavoidable
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Majority of China’s best natural science research spans borders
Nature Index shows that more than half of Chinese-authored papers in high-quality natural science journals featured international collaboration in 2016
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Australia’s budget measures will decapitate vocational education – again
Removing the cap on subsidised sub-bachelor’s places in public universities will pull the rug out from under technical and further education providers offering similar qualifications, says Gavin...
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Kenneth Gloag, 1960-2017
Tributes paid to expert on 20th-century music who was ‘exhilarating colleague’