Casual exploitation must become history
The sweatshop conditions in which sessional academics work in Australia mirror the treatment of schoolteachers in Victorian times, say Hannah Forsyth and Jedidiah EvansÂ
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The truth is out there: a philosopher’s journey in Norway
Stephen Mumford tells Matthew Reisz about his desire to bring his discipline to a wider audience, why Norway was the perfect place to write his Cartesian debut novel and why insights into causation...
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What are you reading? – 29 June 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond, by Emily Mayhew
Book of the week: Joanna Bourke on the gruelling truths faced by injured soldiers, and their carers and families
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Weaving a tale of spiders and sexbots
In his new column that will focus on unusual books and interesting developments in academic publishing, Matthew Reisz considers a strange and mind-bendingly entertaining book
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Grant winners – 29 June 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Laurie Taylor – 29 June 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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A great responsibility
Few in academia will have celebrated Brexit’s first anniversary but the unpredictable year since the vote has shown the power of a united voice
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TEF: tales of mismeasures and sour grapes
Edward Peck, the vice-chancellor of Nottingham Trent University, argues “Don’t attack the TEF, embrace it” (Opinion, 23 June). Such a view makes me despair. The teaching excellence framework does not...
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Hallway supervisors
Re your story on the University of Northampton’s new campus, “Hot-desking appears on horizon as Waterside project nears completion” (News, 22 June). I remember being without a designated office space...
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Unhealthy diversion
I have a great deal of sympathy with the views of Philip Chan about the diversion of funds from teaching student doctors to research (“Medical education is a rich patient at risk of being bled dry”,...
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External ends
Some time ago, I wrote lamenting the demise of the external examiner on undergraduate degree programmes. We have just had the exam board meeting for final-year students, and what a dirge this has...