No platforming needs no reforming
Barring controversial speakers has a long heritage and the Office for Students should be very wary of cracking down on it, argues Evan Smith
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Universities’ targets for research time are way off the mark
A year-long experiment convinced Michael Marinetto that carving out research time is a fun but unwinnable game
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The blockade of Qatar will damage science across the region
Collaboration within the Gulf region was rare but now the few oases in the desert risk running dry, says Hilal Lashuel
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Books editor’s blog: David Lodge’s double life
Writer’s Luck: A Memoir: 1976-1991, from the author of celebrated comic campus novels and former professor of English literature, offers a vivid picture of a lost world
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The week in higher education – 25 January 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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What are you reading? – 25 January 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness, by Rhodri Lewis
Book of the week: Will we swallow a radical take on a Shakespearean tragedy served with edibles? asks Peter J. Smith
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Research that pays: knowledge transfer at the world’s top universities
Simon Baker discovers what the World Economic Forum’s ‘community’ of universities – the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF) – can teach us about industry-academia collaboration and innovation with...
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Prizes for enterprise: the shape of KEF to come
Introduced to help boost technology transfer amid renewed political focus on ‘industrial strategy’, the KEF aims to complement the REF and TEF. But how will it work? Is it even necessary? And is the...
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Laurie Taylor – 25 January 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Sensitivity to China must not call the shots
The feature “Censors and sensitivities” (4 January) explored the question “how can scholars tackle the rise of Chinese censorship in the West?”. The key issue is not really that difficult for anyone...
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Sidelight spotlight
In the feature “A bit on the side” (18 January), academics discussed their excursions beyond disciplinary boundaries. As a latecomer to the academic pursuit of computer science (having had a...
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Clear thinking
It is unfortunate that Stuart Wrigley’s attempt to argue that “there is no such thing as critical thinking” betrayed a significant lack of critical thinking (“The write way to think”, Opinion, 4 ...
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Strategic setback
In his HE & me interview (News, 18 January), Richard Barbrook, senior lecturer in the department of politics and international relations at the University of Westminster and a digital democracy...