Personalised learning on a massive scale has potential and pitfalls
Open University report predicts that adaptive teaching tools will grow in popularity, but highlights need to tread carefully with the data they collect on students
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Spending review: winners and losers from the new Global Challenges Research Fund
A qualified welcome for George Osborne’s real-terms protection of research, but uncertainty over how new overseas aid spending will operate
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Student loan expansion relies on ‘accounting trick’
Government’s moves to lower student loan write-off ease path to postgraduate and part-time lending
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Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
A small tax hike for the cream of 1 per cent could fund college for the poorest, says Danny Dorling
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Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective, by Lowell Edmunds
A search for shared motifs in folklore and Classics is impressively broad-ranging, says Barbara Graziosi
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Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum
Marianne Franklin on a guide to help people escape the attentions of public and private bodies capturing and capitalising on our online actions
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Books interview: Louise O. Fresco
Wageningen University president and author of Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat on her appetite for good books, from Primo Levi to Claudia Roden.
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Scientists ‘less engaged with public than arts and humanities academics’
Survey also finds that women do more work with the general public than male researchers
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British School of Osteopathy wins access to public research and teaching funding
Clinical evidence on osteopathy ‘fails to show convincingly’ it works, claims critic after private BSO wins Hefce designation
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Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis, by Tim Flannery
Steven Yearley finds merit but not proven mileage in putting CO2 on ice to arrest global warming
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The Profligate Son Or, a True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency England, by Nicola Phillips
How does a dandy pay for his lifestyle? Clare Brant follows a rake’s descent into crime, dissolution and disrepute
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What are you reading? – 3 December 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 3 December 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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The Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey through a City’s Poor and Bohemian Past, by Luc Sante
Book of the week: Beneath a bourgeois veneer is a secret history of defunct jobs and fascinating lives, says Paul White
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Today’s students are anything but coddled
The furore about trigger warnings and no-platform campaigns reveals not a timid generation but rather one unafraid to tackle reality head-on, argues Tom Cutterham