Interview with Arianna Huffington
The founder of The Huffington Post tells us how much sleep deprivation impacts on students’ well-being and how it could account for Donald Trump’s idiosyncratic election campaign
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Anthony Clifford, 1938-2016
A leading researcher in the use of supercritical fluids and superheated water in industry, who founded one of the University of Leeds' first spin-out companies, has died
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Unequal marking blamed on peer pressure, not disciplinary divides
Researchers find variation in marks given by same lecturers to similar students when working in different departments
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Cardiff University v-c issues warning over Wales quality plans
As funding council plans to keep independent reviews, Colin Riordan says UK-wide system must be protected
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Cull of London Met UCU pair sparks ‘union victimisation’ claim
Two long-time critics of London Metropolitan University management have been selected for redundancy, but institution dismisses any suggestion of a link
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Does the REF motivate or discourage research staff?
Academics and policy advisers have given their verdict in a study exploring how the REF affects the day-to-day lives of scholars
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Times Higher Education pay survey 2016
Vice-chancellors have again come in for flak over what they are paid. We look at how their compensation packages compare with those of their international peers. Jack Grove runs the numbers
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The week in higher education – 19 May 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, by Manisha Sinha
Book of the week: Blacks were key agents in the international battle against slavery, Olivette Otele writes
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What are you reading? – 19 May 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Demon of Geopolitics: How Karl Haushofer “Educated” Hitler and Hess, by Holger H. Herwig
Jörg Michael Dostal on whether one German thinker directly influenced Hitler’s geopolitics
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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation, by Jim Downs
Angelia Wilson on a time in gay culture that no one forgot
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Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, by Emma Smith
We are spellbound by an opus whose copies once gathered crumbs and scribbles, says Lisa Hopkins
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Migrant Women’s Voices: Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945, by Linda McDowell
Lisa Mckenzie on a study of the personal stories of female workers in different industries and the challenges they faced
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New and noteworthy – 19 May 2016
Just deserts, theatres of war, hearting Hayek and the best lust-free years of your life: must-read academic books