The university as pillar of the community
Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania deploy a host of financial and intellectual resources to help locals build richer, healthier, more inclusive cities. John Morgan reports
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Academics warn about Brexit threat to university-business links
UK ‘naive’ to think that it could replace academic links with European industry with those from elsewhere
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Reality check: alongside uncertainty comes opportunity
Investing in UK science may be cheaper after Brexit but the true cost to innovation system remains to be seen, says Holly Else
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Grant winners – 9 February 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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The week in higher education – 9 February 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Deborah Lipstadt: the quest for truth in the post-truth era
How do you defeat Nazis and liars? Focus on the people in earshot, says eminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt
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Take a stand – and deliver
If Trump and Brexit are the problem, universities are part of the solution, says Sally Hunt. But we must do better than we have
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In dark days, universities must keep the lights on at home
Our age of unenlightenment demands that institutions share their intellectual and moral capital with the communities around them
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Watching the doomsday clock together
Catastrophes are likely to be more swift, global and devastating in our interconnected world, says Martin Rees, so scientists must join forces to keep us safe
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Laurie Taylor – 9 February 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Call them Al? No, call out and tackle bias
I was saddened to read your report that anglicising “foreign” names improves employability and student name recognition (“Anglicising foreign students’ names ‘could reduce bias’”, News, 26 January)...
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Hail fellows
Having been approached for comments on the Independent Social Research Foundation’s latest early career fellowship competition, I was surprised to find that the resulting article, “Early career...
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Uncritical reports
Re the article “Tackle ‘reporting bias’ in pedagogy research, paper warns” (News, 2 February). As an academic involved in appraising studies of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the...
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Openly self-seeking
Peter Horrocks’ article “Why my university is not entering the TEF” (Opinion, 2 February) is typical Open University sleight of hand. He well knows that the OU’s key problem is the appalling...