The Dictator鈥檚 Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party鈥檚 Strategy for Survival, by Bruce J. Dickson
Money buys compliance, and a few shots of Confucianism help too, says Jonathan Mirsky
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What are you reading? 鈥 22 September 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, by Jack Hamilton
Emma Rees is happily lost in a Sixties鈥 soundscape but wonders why there are so few female artists
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 22 September 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Economic impact of research at UK, US and Japanese universities
This graph compares how UK, US and Japanese universities perform on measures of the economic impact of their research
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Grant winners 鈥 22 September 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Master Plan 2.0: still hope for the California dream
Via fiscal reform, income-linked loans and four-year places, a famed higher education system can be saved, says Simon Marginson
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Deplore Hungary鈥檚 leader, but spare its students and scholars
The country鈥檚 learners and academics are more thoughtful, engaged and generous than their UK counterparts, says Sam Gilchrist Hall
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Lifelong learning trumps trendy
I write this letter as an employee of the University of Leicester, specifically the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning, a department that the university is trying to close down. I am writing this...
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Grammatical error
The creation of grammar schools is an interesting but risky policy (鈥淲hat will the creation of new grammar schools mean for UK universities?鈥, 9 September). Presumably, most schools will select by...
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Local knowledge
As a long-term resident of Liverpool and a staff member of the university, I wouldn鈥檛 say that the citizens of Liverpool voted to stay in the European Union because of their fear of losing...
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Grist for the mill
Daniel Dennehy鈥檚 argument about value for money as a way to justify writing for an essay mill is seriously weakened because he omits to mention the huge hike in tuition fees that occurred in the UK...
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Bye bye, baby
鈥淟eopold鈥, in discussing university applicants, uses the word 鈥渃hild鈥 twice and the words 鈥渙ffspring鈥 and 鈥渃hildren鈥 once each (鈥淧arents have a right to attend open days鈥, Letters, 15 September). It...
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So, let鈥檚 do it?
We must encourage our students (and colleagues) not to use 鈥渁bsolutely鈥 instead of 鈥測es鈥, and also not to begin almost every reply or statement with 鈥渟o鈥. Another irritating habit is the raising of...