China campus aids Juilliard in search for next musical prodigy
Tianjin campus will be first in country to offer US-accredited master of music degree
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Four ways to make research more open and robust
Metadata can be used to improve research integrity but first major changes to research design and practice need to be made, argues Neil Jacobs
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Conservative provinces split from Trudeau on higher education
Alberta joins Ontario in cutting university funding and hiking tuition fees
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Judge fines US education secretary over debt collection
Trump education chief resisted aiding students defrauded by for-profit college chain
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Fund individual academics, not PIs, ‘to stamp out sexual abuse’
Gender equality expert says higher education sector must ‘strengthen the economic independence of researchers’Â
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US academics get help battling disinformation in politics
Repository of research findings to help social scientists see ‘what we’re actually grappling with’
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It is time for universities to reconsider how they defend intellectual property
State-sponsored espionage threatens UK higher education’s reputation as an international centre for research and innovation – and universities must take action, argues Ed LewisÂ
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Funding warning in new UK research integrity concordat
Tough sanctions on institutions that ignore research integrity rules in new concordat backed by Universities UK and research funders
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Mid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture after the Second World War, by Lisa Mullen
Leo Mellor is impressed by a bold reinterpretation of British culture in the middle of the past century
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Honour Killing in Shakespeare, by Loraine Fletcher
Emma Rees is unconvinced by an attempt to shed new light on sexual conflict in the Bard’s works
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What are you reading? – 24 October 2019
A fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Facebook, the Media and Democracy: Big Tech, Small State?, by Leighton Andrews
Ivor Gaber is left wanting more in this account of how Facebook became a linchpin of today’s ‘surveillance capitalism’
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Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Shaping the Technologies of Tomorrow, by Ramesh Srinivasan
Nathan Schneider would like more detail about how we can escape the embrace of the technological giants
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Harassed: Gender, Bodies and Ethnographic Research, by Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards
Book of the week: Rachel O’Neill praises a sobering study of how we can combat the sheer amount of abuse female researchers experience in the field
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Interview with Aanchal Malhotra
The artist and oral art historian discusses what objects can tell us about the past, the importance of fieldwork and the calming influence of a good clean