The week in higher education – 26 October 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Call for ‘radical change’ in admissions at top UK universities
Sutton Trust says contextual admissions must become ‘central’ as report reveals uneven use across sector
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Interview with John Taylor
The inventor with a penchant for clocks talks KitKat wrappers and kettles
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Career advice: how to excel at admin
Robert MacIntosh explains how academics should tackle their first university administrative role
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Sylke Tempel, 1963-2017
Journalist who led Stanford courses in Berlin remembered
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Government muddling could be US universities’ best hope
Trump has little in the way of strategy on higher education, but the sector could still suffer collateral damage in the president’s desperate search for a legislative win, says John Aubrey Douglass
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The ideal partner in crime (solving)
The scholarly better halves of literary sleuths flatter academic readers’ egos with their virtue, says Emily Michelson
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Will universities become a redundant archipelago?
Internet entrepreneurs will not rest until they have made physical universities obsolete, predicts Glyn Davis
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Tackling the reproducibility crisis requires universal standards
Accreditation of research methods should be a mandatory requirement for publication in journals, says Peter Thompson
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Painfully funny: inhabiting the space between tragedy and comedy
In a pair of books exploring aspects of Jewish identity, Devorah Baum reflects on Jewishness and the human condition. She talks about turning uncomfortable ‘Jewish feelings’ such as guilt into...
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Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, by Kieran Setiya
Book of the week: No longer young, not yet old, the middle-aged academic sees the world askew, says Joe Moran
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New and noteworthy – 26 October 2017
Rewriting the rules of journalism; pondering ways of thinking; competing with capitalism; marginalised scientists; and a history of jealousy
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How the Stasi archive handles potentially incriminating information
David Matthews learns how archivists deal with enquiries about material collected by the former East Germany’s secret police that can still destroy reputations