What are you reading? – 2 November 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Books interview: David Hollinger
The scholar of American history and author on the works of Pearl S. Buck, John Hersey and others that sparked his interest in the work of US missionaries and the role of religion in the US
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Will enforcing free speech on campus bring freedom or tyranny?
Last week’s spats over universities’ supposed anti-Brexit bias and what to do about it highlight the contested nature of free speech
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Laurie Taylor – 2 November 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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MP’s chilling Brexit letter a worrying turn
The letter from Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harris to UK universities asking them for details of names of those “teaching European affairs, with particular reference to Brexit”, and a list of course...
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They can overcome
There has been a recent upsurge in discussion about access to leading universities after Labour MP David Lammy’s disclosure that certain ethnic, regional and social-class groups continue to be highly...
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Going to your local
It is very depressing if, in order for the UK to save money, the future is for “more people to live at home and study locally or go to university later in life”, since part of the transformational...
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International perspective: a British student in Spain
Even as a fluent Spanish speaker, blogger Lili Bidwell says going abroad to Spain as an Erasmus student from the UK was pretty daunting
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Oxbridge beats Eton if you want to be in the ‘elite’ (but both is best)
The most effective institutions in ‘oiling elite trajectories’ are now universities, not schools, find Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves
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Industrial Strategy Commission: it is time to address UK’s major regional inequalities
Commission’s final report calls for an Office for Strategic Economic Management to ensure sound regional economic policy, writes Andy Westwood
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One-size-fits-all quality system ‘forces private colleges to lie’
Senior QAA reviewer claims it is unfair to compare alternative providers to universities when they charge different fees