Geography’s place in the world
Is the subject’s amalgam of a wide range of subject matter and methodologies a strength or a weakness? Five scholars have their say
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Laurie Taylor – 24 March 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Ending casualisation will not only benefit early career academics
Like junior doctors, academics should highlight the public value of what they do, argues Tom Cutterham
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Government policy is wrecking science
Tim Birkhead warns of the ‘end of science’ unless academics push back against threats to creativity and integrity
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Grant winners – 24 March 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Why are students drawn to horror?
Fascination with ‘dark studies’ needs to be countered by studies of the Enlightenment, says Robert Zaretsky
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Turkey must stop persecuting academics
The Turkish government and the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, continue to oppress political dissent violently and illegally in Turkey. On 11 January, Erdoğan accused 1,128 academics of...
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Diverse and fair
Birkbeck, University of London, is enormously proud of its efforts to offer harmonised pay and conditions for full- and part-time members of staff. Unfortunately, your story “Universities ‘most...
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Novel entitlements
I can sympathise with David Wilson and his anger with “manager-professors” (“Ersatz professors should be booed off the stage”, Opinion, 17 March). My concerns were epitomised in one university where...
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Power up, please
Dr Goshworthy “may well have found the remains of a savoury sausage in the fridge” (The Poppletonian, 10 March), but he is not right “to use Hotelling’s T test to supplement his analysis of variance...