Why I’ve read ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ every year since 2001
Lisa Mckenzie finds a new lesson in Orwell's classic every time she reads it – and this year, it concerns some of her fellow scholars
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Technology provides ‘golden opportunity’ for higher education reform
Philanthropist and entrepreneur Charles Chen Yidan says today’s education systems are ‘not suited to tomorrow’s society’
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Marc Bertrand, 1933-2017
Academic who prized French popular and high culture is remembered
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Interview with Lord Hastings
We talk mind-shaping, global citizenship and racial tolerance with the former BBC senior manager
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The Invention of Creativity: Modern Society and the Culture of the New, by Andreas Reckwitz
In the aesthetic economy, all individuals and cities can be branded producers, Andrew Blake learns
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The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class, by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
The author’s case that America’s richest are shifting to inconspicuous consumption is underpinned by many statistics, but Danny Dorling says they can be read other ways
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Invisibly Blighted: The Digital Erosion of Childhood, by Sandra Leaton Gray and Andy Phippen
From sexting to iris scans at school, a study eyes tech risks and responsibilities, says Lydia Plowman
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Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, by Jon Lewis
Richard Williams on a study of Tinseltown, a place where dreams and death, success and tragedy, and fantasy and reality collide
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Jean-Lou Chameau: the leader with the Midas touch
Ellie Bothwell talks with the KAUST president about effective leadership, securing funding and the importance of keeping the local public onside
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Debt fears deter poorest from applying to university, study says
While participation has continued to grow under £9,000 fee regime, researchers argue efforts to widen access would be helped by abolition of fees
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The week in higher education – 1 June 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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A net tuition bill should land a bigger catch
A student funding system in Ontario that brings together sources of financial help will be watched closely by other provinces seeking to increase access, says Glen Jones
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Profit must not pervert education
Purdue University’s controversial acquisition of Kaplan University reflects the failure of for-profit education. But, under Trump, it may have an unwelcome resurgence, warns Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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The art of hiring female leaders
Higher education could learn a lot from the arts sector about recruiting senior women. Part-time roles and job-shares could be game-changers, says Joanna Read
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Swedish academia is no meritocracy
Unadvertised positions and favouritism 'commonplaces in Swedish academic hiring'