Student Experience Survey 2018: The rising stars of higher education
New Times Higher Education survey statistics reveal the institutions making the most progress over the past decade. Simon Baker reports
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Student Experience Survey 2018: Protecting free speech while keeping students safe
The Office for Students’ plan to fine institutions that allow the ‘no-platforming’ of controversial speakers is a boon for those who believe exposure to wide-ranging views is a fundamental part of...
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Student Experience Survey 2018: Staffordshire’s 24-hour campus that works for all
With most of its students living at home, Staffordshire University ensures they can access facilities when it suits them, finds Jo Faragher
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Student Experience Survey 2018: the results
Find out how your institution fared in the SES rankings
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When the dog eats your exam-marking homework, bark
The apparent theft of exam papers in Papua New Guinea suggests to John Warren that we should all be more transparent over marking mishaps
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UK academics have snapped – and not just over pensions
Casualisation and treating academics like feckless children who can’t be trusted have also taken their toll, says Sarah Colvin
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Laurie Taylor – 22 March 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography, by June Purvis
What’s our ruling on the suffragette turned expat evangelist who was made a dame, asks Mary Evans
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Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive, by Clare Hemmings
Catherine Rottenberg asks whether we can include an anarchist activist and writer in a queer, feminist archival history given her refusal to identify as a feminist?
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Empire of Sentiment: The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism, by Joanna Lewis
Book of the week: Joanna Bourke on a study of the ‘maelstrom of radical feeling’ that was the British Empire
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Michal Kosinski: enemy of privacy or just a whistleblower?
Psychologist Michal Kosinski’s work shows how digital footprints can predict a person’s sexual orientation, political views and more. Is it a danger or a warning about threats to privacy? John Morgan...
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Can Qatar’s universities survive the Gulf blockade?
Will the current blockade on Qatar harm its higher education system? Simon Baker investigates whether the need to find common scientific ground among Gulf states could win out
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Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction, by Catherine Gallagher
Incisive analysis of what might have been wins over Robert Eaglestone to imaginary histories