Theresa May announces £2 billion boost for UK research
Prime minister pledges “real terms increases” in investment and new fund to back emerging technology
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London student visas? New ideas for UK ‘differentiation’ emerge
Other nations’ approaches to universities on visas may help to guide UK
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Laurie Taylor – 24 November 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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What are you reading? – 24 November 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks, by Geoffrey C. Kabat
Do mobile phones give you brain tumours? Don’t ask the people in white lab coats, says Jennifer Rohn
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British Women of the Eastern Front: War, Writing and Experience in Serbia and Russia, 1914-20, by Angela K. Smith
June Purvis on an engaging study of the doughty pioneers who swapped Edwardian life for the front line
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Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia – in 100 Cities, by Alan Marshall
London as an eco-village? Treehouses in Accra? Danny Dorling lauds beautiful and bold what-ifs
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A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain, by Simon Goldhill
All the spoken and unspoken desires in one household are unveiled in a study of their prolific, and introspective, writings, says Jane Shaw
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Books interview: Lindy Grant
The professor of medieval history and author of Blanche of Castile: Queen of France on the literary and scholarly stepping stones that fuelled her interest in the Middle Ages
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Mass learning must mean web-based study
We have all the elements needed to make online courses succeed, but institutional inertia at well-established universities stymies progress, argues Laurence Brockliss
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To boost social mobility, campuses mustn’t feel a world apart
We have to do more to ensure British-Bangladeshi girls don’t fear they’ll be isolated at university, says Sally Brian
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South Sudan’s scholars need peace offerings
Africa’s newest country is fertile territory for post-conflict research and more, but they need Western help, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok
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Resits are failing students
We read with interest your article on the problems with resit examinations (“Resits may not improve academic performance, says study”, News, 15 November). At our own medical school, we realised a few...