The week in higher education – 1 December 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Julia Gillard on tackling sexism against female leaders
The former Australian prime minister on making the internet safe for women and helping universities prepare for change
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Researching ‘truth’, delivering ‘justice’ on Hillsborough
Phil Scraton on the role his work played in securing justice for the victims’ families and survivors of the 1989 disaster
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Laurie Taylor – 1 December 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Mentally ill students struggle to get help. I know: I was one of them
On-campus support for those in crisis is desperately underfunded, dangerously limited and even offputting
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‘Post-truth’: Orwell would spot the doublespeak in the Word of 2016
Sandy Grant urges educators to support students’ rejection of prejudice – and call out language that defends the indefensible
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Grant winners – 1 December 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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In the UK research ecosystem, cash is not the only fertiliser
For British science to thrive rather than just survive, EU partnerships and global recruitment remain key to fruitful collisions of concepts, says Ian Walmsley
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Lords should review HE bill
As academics from leading universities, we are concerned about the implications of the Higher Education and Research Bill. We worry that it will reduce the quality of what is a world-leading sector...
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Alienation effect
It’s hard to understand why the Home Office is persisting with this drive to reduce international students (“UK ‘modelling significant cut’ in overseas student numbers”, 24 November). Ministers were...
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Breadth of study
You reported the concerns of academics from King’s College London and the University of Cambridge that the return to linear A levels would have a negative impact on the number of girls taking up...
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Resit rethink
While Ivo Arnold is broadly right to argue that resits have limited impact on students’ subsequent performance, our recent research on behalf of the Northern Universities Consortium and the Standards...
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In politics and in the academy, it’s the sexism, stupid
The male chauvinism faced by female political leaders is not worlds away from that too often encountered in academia