Taking the lead
The need to “build bridges” in the right places is key to future success for many universities (“Could accepting a Poppleton view of the campus build bridges?”, News, 4 August). However, the academic...
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Turkey’s plight
I declare an interest in the fate of Turkish academic colleagues, as a university teacher of Armenian heritage (“‘Witch-hunt’ against academics continues following attempted Turkey coup”, www....
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Recording lectures benefited me and my students
Lecture capture enhances learning and shifts the audience’s attention from their notes to you, argues David Grumett
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Useless management headhunters damage academic leadership
Lacking insight and seeking only enrichment, search firms deliver obvious, uninspiring candidates, argues a business school professor
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Grant winners – 18 August 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 18 August 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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When only digital delivery will do
Universities are divided over tech in teaching but as the Ebola crisis raged a Mooc proved to be a life-saving pedagogical tool
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PhD students: how to support them through illness and stress
Supervisors explain how to help students keep their research on track
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Brexit: scholars in English reflect on ‘discontents’ exposed by vote
Academics working in English studies consider what Brexit means for their discipline
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China makes progress in reversing brain drain
Higher proportion of Chinese scholars and students returning home, new book shows
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University of Macau offers unlikely home for Oxbridge tradition
Ultra-modern university in gambling hotspot looks to ancient college system for inspiration
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Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change, by Karen Schrier
Dana Ruggiero on new ways of thinking about how to construct gaming experiences that allow people to help tackle intractable challenges
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Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind, by Barbara Gail Montero
Explaining how skilled individuals deliver a peak performance is a thorny task, Jane O’Grady says
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Books interview: Debbie Lisle
The scholar of international relations and author of Holidays in the Danger Zone on misplaced nostalgia, foreign encounters and the allure of ‘dark tourism’