What are you reading? 鈥 8 March 2018
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 8 March 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton.聽Finem respice!
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Universities must gaze inwards and then speak up
Universities need to confront, rather than ignore, uncomfortable questions about the worth of higher education to be in with a fighting chance
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Higher education: what is it good for?
Economist Bryan Caplan considers tangible benefits, inconvenient truths and wonders whether Latin and poetry are worth the effort when 鈥楰ardashian鈥 trumps 鈥楽hakespeare鈥 in Google search results
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Best supporting actors each and every one
While I agree with Fiona Whelan on the importance of university support staff to institutions, and concur that universities could do more to appreciate them, I聽have to disagree with the comments...
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Watch your tongue
In his criticism of Spiked鈥檚 Free Speech University Rankings, 鈥淔rankly, the Free Speech Rankings are misleading, ill-informed and worryingly influential鈥 (Opinion, 22聽February), Carl Thompson fails...
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Male mastheads
Gendered power displays do聽not have to be sexual in nature, as illustrated by the occupation of gatekeeping positions in academic systems, in this case in respect of research and publishing. There...
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Serfdom 101
In your round-up of The Week in Higher Education (News, 22聽February), you report Aileen Hammond鈥檚 suggestion that 鈥渁ll students in tertiary education could be required to register for work in...
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Appointments 鈥 8 March 2018
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US social scientists must look beyond their own borders
Parochialism makes sense from a career point of view, but is disastrous for public discourse, say Cynthia Miller-Idriss and聽Mitchell L. Stevens
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HR departments are the pits of bureaucracy
People must be treated fairly, but endless box-ticking is not the way to ensure this,聽say Roger Watson and David Thompson