As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

The Royal Commission of Wales said some of these known sites have not been seen clearly in decades.

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The government said its in-house IT system was "more flexible" while meeting "high standards" of security.

New projections raise forecasts of climate impact by up to 136 times

Higher Education - Academic content, such as teaching materials and academic publications, has become an economic resource. This has occurred through assetization as the key economic regime in...

An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

★★★★★ This is a new endeavour for Vaseem Khan, after his two award-winning series set in India, the Malabar House and Baby Ganesh series, and his recent standalone US-based thriller, The Girl in Cell A. I'm always intrigued by extended-universe work that builds on well-known characters and creates new offshoots, as part of my general interest in all things adaptation.

Across the U.S., massive data centers are powering generative AI. History suggests the boom may resemble the railroad bubble, with huge costs for the public.

★★★★ I'm really enjoying the trend towards detective fiction with a strong sense of place, and as someone who lives in Dyffryn Gwy at least part of the time, I was obviously going to pick up this Wye Valley Widows series! (I had actually been trying to get hold of The Cardiff Killings, the start of Torrance's other series, but my library has let all of the copies on the Libby app expire, and so I was diverted.

★★★★ This book was everywhere on Waterstones tables for months, and it follows in the well worn tracks of her previous crime thrillers, starting with the excellent The Hunting Party. I had been a little disappointed in The Paris Apartment, feeling that things were getting quite samey, and the settings a little less compelling, so I resisted picking this up for a while, but did in the end.

This was the third theme on my Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project list, which I started in 2023. As with the other themes, there was a mix of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in this list. Reading plan (chronological) Erewhon, Samuel Butler (1872) Vril: Power of the Coming Race, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (first published anonymously) (1871) The Eagle’s Nest. Ten Lectures on the relation of Art to the Sciences of Organic Form…

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Nothing beats the thrills and seductions of Emily Brontë’s novel

Review ★★★★★ I bought this a few years ago when talking about Dark Academia and detective fiction with a colleague at UCL. I'd particularly been hunting for something that involved economists, but this was adjacent and seemed like fun: two novella-length stories inviting us behind the scenes to see how working in academia can be murder! "Competitive Edge" follows a promotion bid by a precariously employed physicist, juxtaposing governance documents (who…

Dark tales abound of various UK universities being at risk of breaching agreements with their banks. But what exactly are covenants? Why have they come to play such a prominent role in the conversatio...

Review ★★★★ The reason I still love physical libraries is because they make it so easy to wander slowly through a selection of books and pick up something spontaneously that comes with none of the bumph of online selection: no aggregated number of stars by reviewers, no detail about what comes before or after it in a series, no picture or author biography.

Preserved on the campus of University College London (UCL) are the remains of philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Regrettably, his classical liberal view of education has not also benefitted from conservation...

Review ★★★ I was really excited about the premise of this book, and the initial introductions to its apparently diametrically opposed characters—Roach (aka Brogan) and Laura—fizzed with the promise of tension. There was a lack of real menace about Roach, despite her developing stalker behaviour. A grungy quasi-loner, actually longing for connection and struggling to find the right way to go about it, Roach's low self-esteem and awkwardness really do provoke empathy, and I have to say of the two principals I'd prefer to see Roach make a transformation rather than alcoholic melancholic Laura.

Preamble If you like mythologically informed (crime-adjacent) fiction, you can also check out my Dear Damsels story, 'In Darkness' as well as some of the stories in this collection, available on Bookshop.Org! Review ★★★★ This collection was published a few years again now, but I read it earlier this year, while the weather was still gloomy and the nights long.

Review ★★★★★ I was somewhat slow to this, reading it a few years after it came out. Setting up a master detective requires a deftness of touch; go too far, and they sound rather Mary Sue, but if you don't go far enough in impressing their credentials on the reader then they and the plot can feel very hollow. This is one of the many things Turton does excellently, using small sections of back-narration to summarise the relationship between the "alchemical" detective, Samuel Pipps, and his assistant, Arent Hayes, the synopses feigning a parasocial relationship between us as readers and this detective-and-sidekick pair.

The latest in Aditya Chakrabortty’s new economics series looks at how one university’s decision to bring cleaning staff in-house changed working lives and transformed a community for the better

Review ★★★ Having written a collection of short stories about detective work in the Victorian East End, this is of course going to catch my eye, which it did eventually on a Tower Hamlets library shelf. (And the Whitechapel branch, no less.) This is the second novel by TV producer, Claire Evans, although both stand alone. (I haven't read The Fourteenth Letter…

Review ★★★★★ This is the third in the Smart Women series, featuring mother and daughter Ursula and Pandora Smart (in-world, supposedly not their real names) and aunt Charlotte, plus some of their friends and acquaintances, and the series just keeps getting better. As in the previous two books, the Smart women endeavour to go on a relaxing holiday and instead find themselves marooned (although not literally, this time) and in the middle of a murderous plot.

Review ★★★★ I am slowly picking my way through more of the twentieth-century greats’ novels, and Christie’s Poirot novels are excellent travelling companions. Compact and concise, this one was great for a flight and the long commute back from the airport. In brief, eccentric society man Mr Shaitana is stabbed at one of his own parties while the eight of his guests play bridge at two separate tables.