What are you reading? – 14 January 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 14 January 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power, by Svetlana Stephenson
Book of the week: Tim Hall on post-Soviet criminal clans, diverse and complex groups to whom lawlessness is anathema
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Ed Balls interview: ‘When the dust settles, people see the truth’
Gordon Brown’s former right-hand man talks to John Morgan about his return to Harvard, Labour’s higher education ‘failure’ and a political comeback
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Stop, look, listen: the university’s role in counterterrorism
Does the UK’s Prevent strategy go too far in its demands on institutions? A group of experts share their perspectives
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Laurie Taylor – 14 January 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Getting your citations in order
Who loses out when a scholar fails to acknowledge earlier related work? Ron Iphofen on the evergreen virtues of desk research
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Who are the real victims?
In a somewhat martyr-like fashion, Stefano Bonino grumbles about the ink he spilled writing an earlier article defending the employment of former police spy Bob Lambert in a university environment (“...
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Review needed
It was heartening to read Lars Fischer’s defence of book reviewing (“Scholarly book reviewing: time for a plot twist”, Opinion, 7 January). This is self-evidently a vital scholarly function that...
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The metrics scale
It is pleasing that Jonathan Grant makes such a robust defence of quality-related funding and also highlights that the research excellence framework is a relatively inexpensive way of allocating this...