The week in higher education – 8 December 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Messages from Islands: A Global Biodiversity Tour, by Ilkka Hanski
From atoll to reef, a coleopterist fears we may not know what we’ve got until it’s gone, says Jules Pretty
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Zebra Stripes, by Tim Caro
A biologist who spent 10 years in the African sun seeking to explain the wild horse’s pelage is in a class of his own, says Tim Birkhead
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Books interview: Ann Taves
The professor of religious studies and author of Revelatory Events on personal paths, spiritual paths and electoral grief and confusion
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Laurie Taylor – 8 December 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Ground down by French resistance: a tutor’s tale
It’s folly to make my language modules obligatory, says a grande école lecturer confronting students’ boredom and contempt
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Now more than ever, higher education is the road to wealth creation
Martha J. Kanter on making equality of opportunity a reality for ‘the top 100 per cent’ of students
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Don’t write off independent bookshops
Physical stores on and off campus are facing down threats such as Amazon’s Berkeley book ‘hangar’ by evolving, argues Andrew Thacker
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International quality assured
Your report on a paper I delivered at the 11th European Quality Assurance Forum questioned the value of quality assurance guidelines for transnational education (“Global guidelines for TNE 'may be...
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In good time
The editors of the EMBO Journal were glad to be able to publish Enrique Martin-Blanco’s paper (“Academic criticises reviewers after five-year delay to paper”, News, 28 November). The process was, in...
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Mexican vista
Writing from another Centre of Advanced Research in Mexico City, I share with Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela the preoccupation of how to strengthen science in Latin America (“How to make Latin America’s...
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Dear diary
I have done the same Trac paperwork at the same institution as Toby Miller, and I think he is making a fuss over nothing (“My university has asked me to keep a diary of my work, and I hate it”,...
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Watch and learn
Data are available on nearly every aspect of our lives and it is up to us, as individuals, to make a decision over whether the tracking gives us any benefit. Universities naturally collect data on...