Boaty McBoatface rejected as Nerc faces questions from MPs
Research council chiefs to be grilled by select committee after poll to name polar research vessel is overruled
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Reading matters: why we’re bringing freshers to book
Paul Greatrix on exposing an entire cohort to an American pedagogical classic, the common reading programme, and a classic American novel
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THE Awards: you’ve got to be in it to win it
As we open for entries to the ‘Oscars of UK higher education’, editor John Gill reflects on the diversity that makes the THE Awards special
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Still room for improvement
Matthew Reisz reflects on the testimonies of gay academics about how the academy has changed and needs to change more
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Harry Kroto – the interstellar chemist
A former colleague pays tribute to Nobel prizewinner Sir Harold Kroto, who has died aged 76
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THE podcast: 5-11 May 2016 issue review
The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by our editorial team
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Stan Gregory, 1926-2016
A geographer who radically reformed the discipline has died
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Interview with Clare Summerskill
We talk LGBT awareness, verbatim theatre and imaginary friends with the performer turned doctoral student
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Barcelona rises above Spain’s higher education malaise
Barcelona’s own version of the Crick Institute has helped the city’s academic ecosystem to thrive in spite of Spanish bureaucracy, reports Jack Grove from the Catalan capital
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PhD students overseas: where does duty of care lie?
Giulio Regeni’s murder poses difficult questions for the sector on what doctoral students’ research should entail
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The week in higher education – 5 May 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present, by Timothy D. Taylor
Hillegonda Rietveld on the consequences of a cultural shift from musical creativity to profit
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The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739-1841, by Stephen Gaukroger
Jane O’Grady on the development of empirical investigation in attempts to understand human behaviour
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New and noteworthy – 5 May 2016
Edtech unhyped, Nigerian noir, hard-bodied prose and squaring heavens above with those urges below: must-read academic books
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A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain, by Christina Crosby
Joanna Bourke on a memoir focusing on secrets, grief and desire following a life-changing accident