The week in higher education – 2 November 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Search
-
-
Oxford admissions tutor: only radical school reform will significantly widen access
Perhaps more could be done, but Oxbridge admissions data closely mirror applications, says Jonathan Leader Maynard
-
Elite universities strive for inclusivity – but only up to a point
A growing sense of middle-class grievance in the UK would make a radical redistribution of top university places a very difficult political sell, says Sir Nigel Thrift
-
How to negotiate your life’s doctoral turn
Identifying intellectual junctions, intersections and sites for negotiation can give your academic rite of passage the right of way, says Zachary Foster
-
The Internationalists and Their Plan to Outlaw War, by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
Book of the week: Christopher Hill praises an engaging but limited history of the role of law in achieving peace
-
Nicholas Dirks: life on the fault line
The former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley explains how he navigated protests from both the Left and Right, and threatening tweets from President Trump
-
Are ‘edusceptics’ right to portray higher education as a big con?
A recent wave of commentators have been disparaging universities and painting all who work in them as complicit in a fraud. Philip Cowan examines their case
-
What are you reading? – 2 November 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-
Books interview: David Hollinger
The scholar of American history and author on the works of Pearl S. Buck, John Hersey and others that sparked his interest in the work of US missionaries and the role of religion in the US
-
Will enforcing free speech on campus bring freedom or tyranny?
Last week’s spats over universities’ supposed anti-Brexit bias and what to do about it highlight the contested nature of free speech
-
Laurie Taylor – 2 November 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
-
MP’s chilling Brexit letter a worrying turn
The letter from Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harris to UK universities asking them for details of names of those “teaching European affairs, with particular reference to Brexit”, and a list of course...
-
They can overcome
There has been a recent upsurge in discussion about access to leading universities after Labour MP David Lammy’s disclosure that certain ethnic, regional and social-class groups continue to be highly...