Books interview: Jirí Pribán
The author and professor of sociology and philosophy of law discusses Vonnegut, pre-communist histories and the EU’s present and future
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University Mental Health Day: the weight of expectations
For academics and students alike, pressure to perform coupled with a lack of institutional support can severely affect mental health
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What are you reading? – 1 March 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The university: a guide for depressives
The frenzied pace and meaningless demands of university life can often enable a depressed scholar’s existing neuroses. Joe Moran offers some coping strategies
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The week in higher education – 1 March 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 1 March 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Academics’ mental ill health is a black cloud over campus
The crisis in student mental well-being is no secret, but academics too feel overwhelmed by the demands on them. Universities cannot ignore their plight
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Students value happiness, we should too
Academic staff can learn from Yale students’ prioritisation of happiness (“Yale students flock to the pursuit of happiness”, News, 22 February). Their record-breaking enrolment in the Psychology and...
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Inclusive learning
The opening statement by Robert A. Clifton and Alexandra Burnett that “Canadian universities seem to be more concerned about political correctness than educating students” was forewarning enough (“...
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Rules for reviewers
The article “How to write a helpful peer review” (News, 22 February) skips quickly over the most important responsibility of academics in contributing to journal peer review: “Only accept if you have...
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Arm’s-length body
You recently published an opinion article that erroneously claimed that the Institute for Apprenticeships has “suggested that it may have to intervene if [employers] spend too little of their levy on...
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Razor-thin margins
Yvonne Truscott, Poppleton University’s head of humanities (The Poppletonian, 22 February), is justifiably worried about expenses incurred by the department of philosophy, particularly “the annual...
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Appointments – 1 March 2018
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