Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination, by Robert Bickers
Jonathan Mirsky on a complex history of a country struggling to regain control of itself
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice, by Chris Chambers
Luna C. M. Centifanti on the problems surrounding research practices in psychology and how they can be corrected
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The British HE system is as far from the American as ever
While the Higher Education and Research Act seeks to level the playing field between providers, an unregulated category could spook future politicians and see the law retightened, says Nick Hillman
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Thomas Pleger, 1969-2017
Archaeologist who introduced innovative tuition fee structure as university president is remembered
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Acting like spoiled children will do UK universities no favours
Vice-chancellors need to be less demanding and more collaborative and constructive if they want concessions from the government on issues such as immigration, says Lord Lucas
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Supervisors are morally obliged to publish with their PhD students
Objections to co-authorship with juniors display a misguided sense of ethics, say Mark Hayter and Roger Watson
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The Australian budget could have been worse for universities
As higher education costs rise inexorably, students or governments will inevitably have to pay more, says Peter Coaldrake
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PhD students: time to make them university employees?
Universities around the world looking closely at employment rights and research engagement of doctoral candidates
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PhD students as staff: Continental shift
Giving employee rights to doctoral candidates seen as key step to make life in academia more attractive, Holly Else writes
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New and noteworthy – 18 May 2017
The legacy of imperialism, premonitory terror in France, bringing things back home, the wisdom of Freud, and the ethics of face transplants
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Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich, by Michelle K. Troy
Art, business and politics – the story of a disruptive publisher is far from dry, says Robert Eaglestone
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What are you reading? – 18 May 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Butterfly Politics, by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Book of the week: Mary Evans praises a life’s work addressing the inherent gender inequalities in the legal system