What are you reading? – 10 November 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy, by Trebor Scholz
Cheap taxis come at a price but remodelling the online marketplace is an option, says Kylie Jarrett
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The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition, by William Kolbrener
A study offers a new perspective on one of the most important yet elusive Jewish thinkers of the past century
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Brexodus: the world’s highly skilled have options other than the UK
It’s not just EU nationals that universities should worry about losing, says Timothy Devinney, and a shrinking pound won’t help
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Teaching quality: does it come in bulk?
Paul Ashwin takes aim at ‘common sense’ arguments about the link between contact hours and pedagogic excellence
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Students and scholars alike are in precarious positions
What links the anxious, fearful undergraduate and the anxious, fearful academic? Pervasive precarity, argues Matthew Vernon
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Not here to court populism
I am puzzled by the suggestion that the fact that academics are out of step with populist opinion indicates that universities need to “de-polarise” by moving in a more “moderate” direction (“The...
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International pay
As last week’s issue noted, many UK universities have, or are considering, international partnerships or campuses (“Overseas campuses can be both meaningful and viable”, Leader, 3 November). Managing...
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Who needs experts?
On Saturday 29 October, Glyn Davies, Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire, tweeted: “Personally, never thought of academics as ‘experts’. No experience of the real world.” Under the hashtag #...
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Vis-à-vis the facts
I think it is unfair to assume that all Brexiters have an inward-looking approach to the UK’s position in the global community (“The UK is losing the economic and political arguments over...
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Grant winners – 10 November 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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A ray of light for academia amid the Brexit gloom
As push-pull factors exert their force on scholars in the UK, the Article 50 ruling buys universities more time to argue their case against a shifting EU backdrop