If the Australian government wants to link university funding to student satisfaction, it must ensure that scores reflect more than students’ gender, wealth or ease of passage, says Julie Hare
Only a completely new institutional structure will see teaching and research on organisations become a proper, socially responsible subject, and not merely a cash cow, says Martin Parker
Experts in technology and education must work hand in hand if genuinely innovative teaching is to be delivered in the digital environment, says Simone Buitendijk
Open prejudice against his sexuality has seen the career of one academic slowly wither
The Oakland Promise, like a number of local schemes in the US, aims to be a ‘cradle to career’ programme moving more of the city’s children into higher education. John Morgan visits California to...
Do you feel you’re just winging it, waiting for the day when your incompetence is exposed? Six academics show that you’re far from alone
Book of the week: memoirs of the Weimar generation are formed into a powerful social history, writes Hester Vaizey
Neve Gordon lauds a forensic examination of the Palestinian territory and its 2 million inhabitants
Cat Zero, a novel by Jennifer Rohn, an infectious disease researcher, shines light on the backbiting and tensions of lab life as an unlikely team of scientists work to save the cats of Kent from a...
This study of God and country could ask more questions of its subjects, says Angelia Wilson
An insider’s view of the 2016 US election that lacks insight frustrates Lennard Davis
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Scholars keep feelings of inferiority well cloaked yet self-doubt can strike any of us and only disclosure alleviates the pain of this hidden epidemic
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!