Peter Horrocks: it’s time for the OU to reinvent itself again
The Open University's vice-chancellor says now is the moment to turn around decline in part-time study
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Interview with Nathalie Coste-Cerdan
We talk widening participation, gender discrimination in film, and wishing on shooting stars with the French former film executive
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Will Hillary Clinton's debt-free college plan lead to soaring fees?
Democratic nominee's policy leaves 'broken' system intact, experts fear
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Brexit: UK considers alternative options to EU research association
UUK in search for ‘politically achievable’ solution given that end to free movement is ‘likely’
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, by Lauren Elkin
Book of the week: Deborah Longworth meanders with female writer-walkers getting their measure of the metropolis
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The week in higher education – 25 August 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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What are you reading? – 25 August 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything, by Adrian Bejan
From climate change to artificial intelligence, constructal law has a theory, says Richard Joyner
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Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, by Jennifer A. Reich
Helen Bynum on a study of current immunisation practices in North America and the rise of the home-grown expert
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Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology, by Gary T. Marx
Paul Bernal on a vital and comprehensive survey of how our era of ubiquitous observation arose
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Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible, by Jem Bloomfield
Seeking a deep conversation between Scripture and the Bard’s works is a fool’s errand, argues Peter J. Smith
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New and noteworthy – 25 August 2016
The score on Brian Eno, the struggles of America’s down and out in cheap motels, and how our forebears slept
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Whatever happened to the campus sexual revolution?
Lincoln Allison takes a fond look back at the permissiveness prevalent at universities in the 1960s and 1970s, while a more ambivalent Susan Bassnett recalls a reality that didn’t quite live up to...
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How campus libraries became the place to read, pray, learn
Jack Grove learns how sites have been reinvented for the 24/7 digital age, while Donald Brown reflects on the role libraries played in his journey from the Mississippi Delta to Oxford