Laurie Taylor – 6 April 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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It’s not years or even centuries that make a university great
Excellence in an institution is measured by the value of its research and the quality of its teaching, not by the height of the ivy on its walls
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The CEU is vital, and it needs all of our support
It is profoundly concerning that the legislative proposals introduced in Hungary’s National Assembly on 28 March would decisively entrench direct national state control over open international higher...
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Brexit priorities
Now that Article 50 has been triggered, the government must ensure that we continue to enhance and safeguard the UK’S world-leading research, innovation and higher education systems. Our continued...
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Twice-told tales
Perhaps the most depressing thing about education research is the total absence of historical memory and the continual reinvention of the wheel. A librarian calls for the banning of reading lists (“...
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Decades of learning
We were pleased that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory and RELATE at MIT (Research in Learning, Assessing and Tutoring Effectively) were mentioned in...
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Truth twists out
Your “Week in Higher Education” news round-up of 23 March reports on Stephen Hawking’s doubts that Donald Trump has a massively high IQ. We know that the speed of solving anagrams is a good indicator...
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Young University Rankings 2017: a growing concern sprouts new branches
Five years on, our expanding analysis of success-bound younger institutions finds much to celebrate
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EU research funding should be a three-stage rocket
Horizon 2020 could have more success getting technologies off the ground if it does not neglect the basic work that sparks breakthroughs, say Geert de Snoo, Floor Frederiks, Peter Lievens and Katrien...
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Mothering through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media, by Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim
E. Stina Lyon on the contradictory feelings of insecurity and optimism that  digital cultures provides mothers
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All take and no give? Many scientists resist shift to open data
Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own
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Young University Rankings 2017: Golden Age universities
Our new table of the world's best universities established between 1945 and 1966
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Young University Rankings 2017: top 50 Generation Y universities
Asian universities make up 20 of the top 50 institutions established in the late 1980s and 1990s, while the UK and Australia dominate