New and noteworthy – 1 June 2017
Financial gain with Jain; Europe’s challenge; demographic engineering in the Middle East; and our many millions of microscopic family members
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Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe, by Richard Ivan Jobs
Book of the week: Richard Larschan traces the steps of the young tourists who forged a borderless post-war identity
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Of monsters and mentors: PhD disasters, and how to avoid them
Despite all that’s been done to improve doctoral study, horror stories keep coming. Here three students relate PhD nightmares while two academics advise on how to ensure a successful supervision
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What are you reading? – 1 June 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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General election 2017: 54% backing for Labour in THE poll
Tories backed by just 7 per cent of UK university staff responding to survey
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Why the ‘leftward lean’ in UK universities matters
John Morgan looks at the ‘culture wars’ approach to universities emerging on the Right, and the counter-arguments
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Laurie Taylor – 1 June 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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PhD supervision: give and you shall receive
Terrible tales attest that some see this activity as a nuisance or worse, rather than as something that can benefit supervisor as much as student, says John Gill
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Profit paints art out of picture at Falmouth
On 22 May, a collective of students, alumni, staff, past colleagues and political activists delivered two petitions to Falmouth University calling on it to abort its decision to scrap two of its most...
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Joint effort needed
The plans in the Conservative Party’s manifesto to cut overseas student numbers smack of Theresa May cutting her nose off to spite her face (“Conservative manifesto: plan to cut overseas student...
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Base medals
When the teaching excellence framework was first mooted, I assumed that, like the Quality Assurance Agency teaching assessments with which I was associated in the early days, it would be by subject....
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Review objectives
Liz Morrish suggests that academics “adopt a stance of concealed menace” towards their assessor to get through their annual performance and development review “unscathed” (Letters, 25 May)....