Is the library more than just a building?
Junior academics can access services without physically visiting premises, writes Holly Else
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The benefits of engagement
Simon Gaskell and Adrian Collette explain why proper engagement is an important driver of institutional performance, teaching and research
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What are you reading? – 8 December 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Power of Networks: Six Principles That Connect Our Lives, by Christopher G. Brinton and Mung Chiang
As we cannot cut the cords tethering us to tech, we must fully grasp the connection, says John Gilbey
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Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life, by Aihwa Ong
A study focused on Singapore’s Biopolis centre concentrates on various global ‘currents’ in bioscience, says Flora Samuel
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The week in higher education – 8 December 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Messages from Islands: A Global Biodiversity Tour, by Ilkka Hanski
From atoll to reef, a coleopterist fears we may not know what we’ve got until it’s gone, says Jules Pretty
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Zebra Stripes, by Tim Caro
A biologist who spent 10 years in the African sun seeking to explain the wild horse’s pelage is in a class of his own, says Tim Birkhead
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Books interview: Ann Taves
The professor of religious studies and author of Revelatory Events on personal paths, spiritual paths and electoral grief and confusion
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Laurie Taylor – 8 December 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Ground down by French resistance: a tutor’s tale
It’s folly to make my language modules obligatory, says a grande école lecturer confronting students’ boredom and contempt
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Now more than ever, higher education is the road to wealth creation
Martha J. Kanter on making equality of opportunity a reality for ‘the top 100 per cent’ of students
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Don’t write off independent bookshops
Physical stores on and off campus are facing down threats such as Amazon’s Berkeley book ‘hangar’ by evolving, argues Andrew Thacker