What are you reading? – 16 March 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Behind bars: one academic’s experience of an Indian prison
James Tooley reflects on who helped him, who let him down and what he learned from his time in prison in Hyderabad
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Will peace in Colombia mean progress for universities?
Matthew Reisz in Bogotá examines how quickly a TACTIC nation can become a more effective player in global higher education
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Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght
Book of the week: Danny Dorling lauds an exposition of the benefits of obligation-free income and how to attain them
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World in brief – 16 March 2017
Higher education news from around the globe
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Bringing technical education back into the HE fold
Tertiary education must be considered as a whole if governments are to prepare the workforce they need
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Laurie Taylor – 16 March 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Short and sweet: two‑year degrees satisfy
Two-year degrees will not lead to the dire scenarios that some have predicted (“Counting the hours shows fast-track flaws”, Letters, 2 March; “Fast-track degrees could create two-tier English sector...
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REF needs clarity
The deadline for responses to the consultation on the next research excellence framework is 17 March, and it has created much debate. Although the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Grant winners – 16 March 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Kept down by menial tasks? Black scholars and the ‘neoplantation’
US researcher claims that white academics are given more time to study and write
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University leaders divided over fourth industrial revolution
Presidents agree on need to respond but are warned against being ‘slaves to industry’