The week in higher education – 11 August 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world's media
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Laurie Taylor – 11 August 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Stern might change the rules, but the REF game is still a game
Kirsty Rolfe says the portability proposal does nothing to ease the fears and worries of young researchers struggling to start careers
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What lurks in ageing academics’ unvisited personal archives?
As he bins decades-old lecture notes, Ron Iphofen wonders what unused but undiscarded relics populate scholars’ shelves, discs and drives
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Grant winners – 11 August 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Fifty shades of red: a scholar’s professional and private lives collide
An embarrassing incident led academic and sex blogger Katie Beswick to reflect on the risks and rewards of being open online
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You can never go home again
Ryan Coogan’s eloquent description of the alienating experiences of returning to his home working-class community in Salford after progressing from undergraduate to PhD study made long-healed scars...
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Credit union
I have a hard time seeing how Lord Stern’s review of the research excellence framework doesn’t just create a new set of rules to be gamed, with power having largely been shifted from individuals to...
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Business class
Henry Jinman is correct to highlight the major limitations of basing entrepreneurship education around the development of a business plan (“Enterprise courses in HE ‘reluctant’ to give real-world...
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Glocal authority
I was surprised to see Tara Brabazon argue that “the word ‘glocal’ should be avoided in academic writing on pain of death and/or watching looped episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians” (“...
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Sun, sea and student visas
Easing student visa rules at just four selective universities is a failure to see internationalism as a post-Brexit force for good