The week in higher education – 27 April 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding

Research is a complex ecosystem; focusing on instrumental impacts alone fails to give the full picture of how advances are made, say Laura Meagher and Ursula Martin

Higher education news from around the globe

The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
It might have been quite instructive and eye-opening if the writer of your feature on the state of French higher education, “Liberty, autonomy or permanent bureaucracy?” (Features, 20 April), had...
Susan Michie’s report The Health of People (“To improve people’s health, listen to social scientists”, Opinion, 13 April) makes an excellent strategic recommendation for a national coordinating body...
As an educator, I have a lot of sympathy for Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s lament about the sorry state of general knowledge (“Sorry, they haven’t a clue”, Opinion, 13 April); however, my (postmodernist...
Ian McNay says that he bases his claims on “rigorous fieldwork” and “testable evidence” (“Creed and credence”, Letters, 30 March), so I was somewhat surprised that he so easily dismissed religion as...

We discuss realising what it means to be black in the UK, dealing with insomnia, and institutional racism in the academy, with the renowned race and black identity scholar

Academic who epitomised the term ‘university citizen’ remembered

Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orbán’s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze