Books interview: Vincanne Adams
The medical anthropologist and editor of Metrics: What Counts in Global Health on New Orleans and Katrina, Naomi Klein and Dave Eggers, Ayn Rand and Ursula K. LeGuin
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Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era, by Jocelyn Robson
Helen Bynum on what made a married woman committed to the cause walk away from it all
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The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations, by Ben Shneiderman
Jeremy Singer on a manifesto for maximum impact and insight based on addressing real-world problems in multidisciplinary teams
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What are you reading? – 17 March 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University, by James Axtell
Book of the week: the former universities minister reviews James Axtell's account of the institutions that educate the US elite
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Ombudsman: universities admitting students with bad English
Rob Behrens warns some international learners cannot express themselves properly, let alone follow a course
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Uclan paid Malcolm McVicar £63K in final month
Accounts reveal remuneration for chief executive, alongside further £1.2m loss on Cyprus campus
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Hefce serving up 'dog's dinner' with quality tenders
Critics warn against giving quality work to outsourcing companies
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Universities spending millions helping academics buy homes
Housing crisis in Oxford, Cambridge and London means the cost of loan and joint equity schemes has tripled in past five years
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The California Master Plan: exemplar of a modern higher education sector
The University of California System remains a model blueprint despite Berkeley’s travails, and one the UK would do well to copy, says Alan Ryan
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What next for art schools?
Did art schools such as Central Saint Martins ever have a golden age and, if they did, is it irrevocably lost? Anna Coatman writes
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The week in higher education – 17 March 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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How often cities are mentioned in REF case studies
These maps show which universities do research that goes on to have an impact on London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Birmingham
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Ersatz professors should be booed off the stage
Senior managers with no scholarly record who claim academic titles are charlatans who harm the sector, argues David Wilson