The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles, by Robert C. Knapp
Robert A. Segal on an overview of religion in the Roman Empire that emphasises the similarities between three belief systems
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An Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, by Christopher Tilley and Kate Cameron-Daum
A corner of England makes its mark on those who leave foot, paw and hoof prints, writes Philip Hoare
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The Idea of the PhD: The Doctorate in the Twenty-First-Century Imagination, by Frances Kelly
Tara Brabazon on an argument that the doctorate is undergoing change
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A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education, by David F. Labaree
Book of the week: Howard Segal on an ‘appreciation’ of an unwieldy creature that is the envy of the world
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What are the hot research areas that might spark the next big bang?
We examine citation data to get an idea of the most exciting and potentially ground-breaking research topics
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Selecting for superficiality
Moves to privilege community service in university admissions will create even more social justice warriors when what we need are more deep thinkers, argues Alexander Zubatov
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Hard sums are unavoidable for universities
Labour’s pledge to axe fees suggests that ever-higher charges may not be inevitable, but tough choices between university priorities seem unavoidable
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Majority of China’s best natural science research spans borders
Nature Index shows that more than half of Chinese-authored papers in high-quality natural science journals featured international collaboration in 2016
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Australia’s budget measures will decapitate vocational education – again
Removing the cap on subsidised sub-bachelor’s places in public universities will pull the rug out from under technical and further education providers offering similar qualifications, says Gavin...
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Kenneth Gloag, 1960-2017
Tributes paid to expert on 20th-century music who was ‘exhilarating colleague’
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It’s not essay mills that are doing the grinding
Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students’ and universities’ lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald
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No vacation from citation
10,000 references in, David Zeitlyn reflects on the joys of avoiding looking like a fool
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Who should speak for academics over the future of publishing?
Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe