Well-connected critics boost impact of papers
Seeking feedback from the well networked is better than gaining comments from famous scholars, a conference hears
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Wheelchair basketball captain hopes for Paralympic degree boost
Sophie Carrigill starts Rio campaign just weeks after finishing sports psychology course at University of Worcester
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Interview with Leighton Andrews
We talk government-university relationships, protecting Welsh students’ finances and the highs and lows of supporting Cardiff City FC, with the former politician
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Cambridge’s ‘cost of education’ rises to £18K per student
Politically significant figure shows ‘funding gap’ per student of £7,700
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Michigan Ross dean: ‘learn business by doing business’
New head of US school aims to be at the ‘leading edge’ of action-based education
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Should universities monitor student library use?
With the link between frequent library use and higher grades confirmed, Jack Grove asks if it is time for more universities to start measuring how long students spend in the stacks
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TEF 'unlikely to boost status of teaching against research'
Additional fee income could be diverted to fund research, warns Hepi paper
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Open University aims to be top validating institution
Distance learning champion plans to expand activities with new model
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil
Book of the week: If all-seeing ‘miracle’ tech is making the decisions we must demystify the tricks, says Danny Dorling
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Your toughest experiment: taking the lead in the lab
Eight scientists share the secrets of being a successful principal investigator
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Skewed: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias, by Larry Atkins
From Fox News to the race for the White House, this work is all about politics, says Sharon Wheeler
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What are you reading? – 8 September 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens, by Daniel L. Hatcher
Angelia Wilson on how vulnerability means profitability when deregulation and privatisation come to health and social care
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Being an Early Career Feminist Academic: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges, edited by Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland
Young scholars tell it like it is but is knowledge of replaceability a bar to change? asks Finn Mackay