The week in higher education – 27 October 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition, by Ruth von Bernuth
William Kolbrener on a study of the tales that centre on a place that is both a real Polish city and an imaginary realm
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, by Carlo Rovelli
Blow your mind by travelling to the bizarre yet beautiful frontier of physics, says Tara Shears
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What are you reading? – 27 October 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Advantage Britain: ruling the education world post-Brexit
With the right strategies, becoming the leading country for scholarship and science is within the UK’s grasp, says Jamie Martin
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Building a future for engineering
Five engineers set out why engineering is part of our everyday lives and what universities can do to change the way it is taught
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Building blocks for BRICS excellence
World-leading institutions will require greater funding, internationalisation and autonomy, says C. Raj Kumar
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Laurie Taylor – 27 October 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners – 27 October 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laureate land: Nobel prizewinners by country of origin
America is head and shoulders above other nations in attracting and retaining prizewinning scientists
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A part-time PhD not for turning
Gayle Munro on the disparaging comment that fuelled her thesis and the perception that non-traditional doctoral students lack commitment
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London Met on the wrong path
Universities are not teaching factories. They are spaces of critical thinking and debate. Academic freedom cannot survive in a state of perpetual fear. Yet this is a pretty concise description of the...
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Skills for the job
The ongoing spiel you hear from employers is that graduates lack the skills they need to succeed in the workplace. I wonder if we’ve produced graduates in recent years who have highly specialised...