What are you reading? – 11 May 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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You can’t cure students’ ills by typing on your computer
Being required to document interactions with troubled students in customer relations management systems is just a distraction from addressing their problems, says Susan D’Agostino
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The Dalai Lama controversy highlights the absurdity of safe space demands
Chinese students’ calls for the Tibetan leader to be barred from speaking at the University of California, San Diego show a flawed conception of accommodation and respect, says Ben Medeiros
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The week in higher education – 11 May 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 11 May 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners – 11 May 2017
This week's round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Politics of the Rock
The view that Spain ceded sovereignty over Gibraltar to the UK in 1713 is far from “tendentious”, and certainly not a “howler” (“In response: Gibraltar, universities and the EU”, Blogs, 2 May). Most...
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Markets and minds
Sir Thomas Gresham – who is mentioned in the review of London’s Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City (Books, 27 April) – helped to establish London as a global financial centre. Yet he...
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Network effects
In the article “US academics put research interdisciplinarity on the map” (News, 20 April), Simon Baker offers a nice example of the mapping of networks of collaboration (and intellectual influence...
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Variable rates
Well done to Michael Paraskos for emphasising that academic conferences that offer reduced fees for students seldom make similar adjustments to attract lecturers on low wages (“Concessions, please”,...
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For the vole role
I was delighted to learn (The Week in Higher Education, 27 April) that Natalie Nevarez from the University of Michigan is to conduct research on the sex lives of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster...
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Manchester 'blames Brexit' for 'enormous' job cuts
UCU attacks plans to cut 171 posts, but university denies Brexit 'the reason'
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European Commission calls for more research on migration
Understanding reasons for population movements could help European countries forge more effective responses