Live by the metric…
Peter B. Baker uses an Isaac Asimov short story to illustrate the absurdity of being able to predict student success based on analysing their first week on the course (“I, graduate”, Letters, 6...
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Laurie Taylor – 13 August 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Mexico grapples with quality control as private growth creates ‘tension’
Sector needs national standards and more industry links to drive and sustain economy, say experts
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Postgraduates: what they worry about and why it matters
Government loans may not reverse decline of UK postgraduate numbers, study suggests
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Patricia Crone, 1945-2015
A scholar who transformed our understanding of early Islam has died
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Retail platform gives Southampton Solent fashion students an enterprising outlet
Lecturer who masterminded student-run commercial operation Re:So shortlisted for enterprise education award
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Q&A with Hugh Hunt
We talk to the University of Cambridge academic who brings engineering to life
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Is the UK getting better at philanthropy?
Incoming vice-president of international operations at Case says that UK fundraisers are ‘wildly talented’ but that the talent pool is ‘still very small’
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The Black Mirror: Fragments of an Obituary for Life, by Raymond Tallis
A corpse is the starting point for a lively dissection of experiences big and small, says Jeremy Holmes
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Toronto, the Belfast of Canada: The Orange Order and the Shaping of Municipal Culture, by William J. Smyth
Donald MacRaild on a study analysing the movement’s influence from 1850 to 1950
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Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement, by Andrew Wackerfuss
A close look at a Hamburg paramilitary group teaches Victoria Harris something new about Nazism
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More women on selection committees ‘may reduce chances of success’ for female academics
Conference paper challenges argument that gender-balanced committees boost female candidates
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A Critical Theory of Creativity: Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design, by Richard Howells
The divine is absent in a study focused on our drive to build a better world, finds Keith Tester