Impacts don't just happen
Research is a complex ecosystem; focusing on instrumental impacts alone fails to give the full picture of how advances are made, say Laura Meagher and Ursula Martin
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World in brief – 27 April 2017
Higher education news from around the globe
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Laurie Taylor – 27 April 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Stories worth telling beyond the Périphérique
It might have been quite instructive and eye-opening if the writer of your feature on the state of French higher education, “Liberty, autonomy or permanent bureaucracy?” (Features, 20 April), had...
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Popular study
Susan Michie’s report The Health of People (“To improve people’s health, listen to social scientists”, Opinion, 13 April) makes an excellent strategic recommendation for a national coordinating body...
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Knowledge gaps
As an educator, I have a lot of sympathy for Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s lament about the sorry state of general knowledge (“Sorry, they haven’t a clue”, Opinion, 13 April); however, my (postmodernist...
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Innate religiousness
Ian McNay says that he bases his claims on “rigorous fieldwork” and “testable evidence” (“Creed and credence”, Letters, 30 March), so I was somewhat surprised that he so easily dismissed religion as...
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Higher education is not to blame for the ‘no platforming’ epidemic
Students who grew up disinviting ideological difference on Facebook will naturally want to do the same on campus, says Darren Linvill
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Freedom of speech is not just for academics
Universities should not be neutral about attempts to ‘no platform’ speakers. They must defend students’ right to hear orthodoxy challenged, says Steve Fuller
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Books interview: Zainab Bahrani
The renowned archaeologist discusses being inspired by Greek myths, Agatha Christie’s life on dig sites in Iraq, and the importance of fieldwork to her writing
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London’s Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City, by Stephen Alford
Book of the week: The rise in London’s trading fortunes owed much to foreign visitors, finds Lucy Wooding