UKRI criticised for appointing all-white research council boards
Just five out of 57 appointed members are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds
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Clothes do not make the woman: what female academics wear is subject to constant scrutiny
Women and their clothing are scrutinised more closely because men are seen as the norm in academia. Emma Rees considers the codes at play in what is supposedly a radical space
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The Unmasking of English Dictionaries by R. M. W. Dixon
Lynda Mugglestone ponders what Dr Johnson might have made of an expos茅 of philologists鈥 limitations
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Supply, demand and other funding calculations
Universities need to raise funds from potentially mercurial financial markets without losing sight of their long-term missions. It鈥檚 a delicate balance
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Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions, by Christopher G. White
Simon Young finds much to admire in an attempt to explain the history of a seemingly impossible idea
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Managing the Wild: Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests, by Charles M. Peters
Excluding local people from conservation is not the way to preserve vital vegetation, as it is they whose practices produce the ecologies we value, finds Steven Yearley
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New and noteworthy 鈥 5 April 2018
The case against men (16th-century-style); going to El Norte, and staying behind; glorying in Gorey; and saving Venice
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The week in higher education 鈥 5 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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Student voice is nowhere near overpowering
In a recent opinion article, Nick Hillman asked, 鈥淚s the voice of students鈥 unions too powerful?鈥 (26 March). Of course there should be a discussion about the role of students and students鈥 unions in...
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Valuation vexation
In 鈥淯SS strike: why I聽won鈥檛 join the pensions strike鈥 (Opinion, 28 March), Nick Foster argues that the case for pensions reform cannot be ignored. He cites a recent Green Paper,聽Security and...
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No star ratings
Cathy Shrank is right to take the universities minister, Sam Gyimah, to task over his plans to introduce consumer-style ratings for degree courses, but I鈥檓 not sure she goes far enough (鈥...
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Power and speech
The article 鈥淪top taking liberties with free speech鈥 (聽Times Higher Education聽Student Experience Survey 2018, 22 March) verged on self-satirising propaganda for the Office for Students and its plan...