The week in higher education – 9 August 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Giant’s Causeway inspires building at University College Dublin
Landmark architectural project for campus will echo one of Ireland’s most striking natural phenomena
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The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis, by Martha C. Nussbaum
Book of the week: Not trusting fellow citizens to vote erodes the foundation of polity, writes John Shand
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Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales, by Jill Francis
Guilt grew as green spaces became pleasurable more than productive places, says Lisa Hopkins
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Interview with John Hennessy
The computer scientist on the future of online education, seeing early demonstrations of Google, and why he wished he had cloned himself
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Geoff Whitty, 1946-2018
Tributes paid to former Institute of Education director
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Minority scientists to mentor senior professors in equality drive
‘People who have been around at a university for a while assume they know everything…but actually they need to be educated themselves,’ says project leader
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Under Imran Khan, has Pakistani higher education’s time come?
Scholars broadly welcome new government’s pledges but say sector reform will be challenging
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Laurie Taylor – 2 August 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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India’s ever-decreasing circles of eminence
India’s downsized Institutes of Eminence programme has dashed the hopes of those keen to see an improvement in higher education quality, says Pushkar
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Scientific collaborators are not disposable
Cutting partner labs out of awarded grant budgets is a common but destructive phenomenon in modern academia, says Anne Carpenter
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Embracing the old-buffer zone
He may once have disdained older scholars, but, having reached seniority in a managerialist age, John Brinnamoor now values their ability to say what others can’t
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China is becoming African students’ destination du jour
The high cost and visa complexity associated with Western higher education is driving a mushrooming number of African students east, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok
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A history that puts the environment on the agenda
Academic Jack Davis tells John Morgan of his surprise at learning that his history of the Gulf of Mexico had won a Pulitzer prize and his hope that it will help to deliver a pro-environmental message
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Jesus as Philosopher: The Moral Sage in the Synoptic Gospels, by Runar M. Thorsteinsson
The differences between Jesus and philosophers cannot be ignored, writes Robert Segal