The week in higher education – 30 June 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The Quantified Self, by Deborah Lupton
What are the downsides to being able to monitor so many physical activities? asks Marcus Chown
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Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security, by Simon Cottle, Richard Sambrook and Nick Mosdell
Ivor Gaber welcomes a work that gives overdue attention to the risks that members of the press and those who help them too often face
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New and noteworthy – 30 June 2016
Spain’s Left turn, legible ethnography, the Arab Spring’s bodies of evidence and Walter Benjamin’s Wunderkammer: must-read monographs
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Is there a problem with academic integrity?
A survey suggests research misconduct in the UK is higher than previously feared. Joanna Williams and five other academics ponder the results
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Laurie Taylor – 30 June 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The ABC of Brazil’s Federal University of ABC
By limiting its scope and eschewing academic departments, a campus in Latin America has left room for tradition and transformation, says Klaus Capelle
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The TEF: trading standards whose time has come
Students are dangerously unclear on the value of their high-ticket education, says David Palfreyman. We urgently need ‘contracts to educate’
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Channelling Brexit anger
Most academics are not naturally angry people. We live in a world where statements are made only after careful hypothesis testing, where data are analysed meticulously, where conclusions report what...
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Things past
Professor Barbara Taylor recalls that the late Raphael Samuel was “impatient with the way history was taught at Oxford, where the syllabus included little about working people” (“Death of radical...
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Pitch perfect
David Toop surely could try harder in struggling to think about fiction about music or musicians that doesn’t ring false (“Books interview: David Toop”, Books, 23 June). There is a whole tradition of...
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Young researchers 'strive for impact'
Academics split over importance of research impact
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EU Referendum: Digesting a shock to the system
Post-Brexit years will be full of uncertainty that will take its toll on the sector even if worst-case scenarios don’t come to pass