Closing the achievement gap the intelligent way
Recognising the dominant role of intelligence in academic performance is key to ending the underperformance of poor and minority students, says Richard J. Haier
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Mothering through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media, by Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim
E. Stina Lyon on the contradictory feelings of insecurity and optimism that digital cultures provides mothers
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A scholar in Svalbard
An academic conference in the world’s northern-most human settlement was a profoundly unsettling – and enlightening – experience for Randy Malamud
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Young universities: how to start from scratch
As the THE Young University Rankings 2017 highlight rising stars, Jack Grove looks at six institutions – recently launched or still in the planning stages – built on bold notions and innovative...
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Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age, and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places, by Kathryn H. Anthony
A call to make our world more pleasant and fitting is let down by its own biases, says Isabelle Szmigin
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On What Matters: Volume Three, by Derek Parfit
Constantine Sandis on a fitting swansong from one of its greatest moral philosophers
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New and noteworthy – 6 April 2017
Story time for social scientists; tax owed is not tax loathed; the mighty river of free-flowing curiosity; and the truth, short and sweet
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing, by Marie Hicks
Book of the week: sidelining its female workforce cost the UK primacy in a nascent IT industry, says John Gilbey
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Times Higher Education Leadership & Management Awards 2017 shortlist announced
Do you appear on this year’s shortlist?
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Grant winners – 6 April 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Laurie Taylor – 6 April 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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It’s not years or even centuries that make a university great
Excellence in an institution is measured by the value of its research and the quality of its teaching, not by the height of the ivy on its walls
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The CEU is vital, and it needs all of our support
It is profoundly concerning that the legislative proposals introduced in Hungary’s National Assembly on 28 March would decisively entrench direct national state control over open international higher...