Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology, by Gary T. Marx
Paul Bernal on a vital and comprehensive survey of how our era of ubiquitous observation arose
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Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible, by Jem Bloomfield
Seeking a deep conversation between Scripture and the Bard’s works is a fool’s errand, argues Peter J. Smith
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New and noteworthy – 25 August 2016
The score on Brian Eno, the struggles of America’s down and out in cheap motels, and how our forebears slept
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Whatever happened to the campus sexual revolution?
Lincoln Allison takes a fond look back at the permissiveness prevalent at universities in the 1960s and 1970s, while a more ambivalent Susan Bassnett recalls a reality that didn’t quite live up to...
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How campus libraries became the place to read, pray, learn
Jack Grove learns how sites have been reinvented for the 24/7 digital age, while Donald Brown reflects on the role libraries played in his journey from the Mississippi Delta to Oxford
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Laurie Taylor – 25 August 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Erasmus is more than a bargaining chip
It is imperative that the UK commits to participating in the student exchange programme post-Brexit, says Tim Farron
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Standards fall when satisfaction is the name of the game
Treating students as consumers has precipitated a rush to the bottom to give them exactly what they want, says John Warren
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Supervisors can do a lot more to support PhD students
Many doctoral candidates feel poorly looked after. More awareness and empathy from academics can help fight that, says Geoffrey Cantor
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Forging links in business chain
Increased links between business and universities are an unalloyed good, and not only because they may help to fill a gap in government funding; the accumulation of knowledge should not remain within...
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Scholars in the lead
Thank you to the anonymous writer for raising the issue of useless headhunters (“Useless management headhunters damage academic leadership”, Opinion, 18 August). In 2014, the executive recruiter...
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Old is the new new
It would be hard to tell from Martin McQuillan’s article that New Labour had lost two elections, had overseen a steady decline in membership, and had lost Scotland to the Scottish National Party (“...
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Share to learn
Interdisciplinary cooperation is one of the values that Bath Spa University prides itself on, so I was delighted to read Nick Jennings of Imperial College London advocating this approach (“Overly...
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Grant winners – 25 August 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash