Grant winners 鈥 31 March 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Can a young university be a world-leading university?
Youth is not a bar to excellence, despite older institutions鈥 rankings success. Jack聽Grove analyses how some youthful contenders have risen in the ranks
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 31 March 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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What鈥檚 the appropriate attire for learning?
Dress codes have all but died, but Felipe Fern谩ndez-Armesto still thinks we work best when properly and thoughtfully attired
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Maverick spirit of art schools is being crushed
Anna Coatman鈥檚 feature 鈥淲hat next for art schools?鈥 (17 March) on the 鈥渓ost鈥 golden age of UK art schools omitted an important and still relevant fact: there was 鈥渟omething in the air鈥 about those...
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Unsung classics
I was very glad to see Emma Gee raise the issue of the translation of Classics and its scholarly nature and potential to engage the public (鈥淐lassics鈥 elitism should be lost in translation鈥, 17 March...
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OU soul-searching
The Open University does, as Ormond Simpson argues, need to rediscover a personal touch (鈥淸!The Open University!] needs to make it personal鈥, Letters, 10 March), but that in itself cannot be the...
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Stopping charlatans
Abuse of the professorial title is easily remedied (鈥淓rsatz professors should be booed off the stage鈥, Opinion, 17 March). Section B3 of the Quality Assurance Agency鈥檚 Quality Code insists that 鈥...
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Atypical questions
Responding to figures on teaching-only contracts released by Fighting Against Casualisation in Education last week, a spokesperson for Birkbeck, University of London claimed that including their...
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Sisters鈥 struggles
Re Winston Morgan鈥檚 article on 鈥淲hy is my professor still not black?鈥 (14 March). For the 2013-14 academic year, there were 100 black professors in the UK, and of these only 20 were women, so it is...
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Universities are key to entrepreneurship in Africa
The African Institute for Transformational Entrepreneurship will help propel Africa to the forefront of new knowledge creation, argues John Latham