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Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Open society

John Kaag is not up to speed with meetings culture (“Short is sweet”, Opinion, 12 September). It is not rude to have your laptop or tablet open during a meeting: in the era of the paperless office,...

Plucky, blameless Belgians

In his review of July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin, A. W. Purdue says: “The question of which, if any, nation was responsible for the First World War remains open.” In 1919, someone said...

Two years? Yes we can

In the article “In UK, two-year courses still too short a season” (News, 12 September), you mention a report by Ella Ritchie, former pro vice-chancellor for teaching and learning at Newcastle...

Actually existing solution

Alessandra Lopez y Royo argues that “free market principles have changed and ruined the academy” (Opinion, 22 August), and states that she would “think long and hard” before advising others to carve...

Practical lessons

I was disappointed with “Failure analysis” (From where I sit, 5 September). Failure anticipation and analysis in higher education teaching and learning, a part of what in engineering might be termed...

Light or dark, still blue

Siana Bangura defends a “holistic” Oxbridge application process but offers no evidence to support her claims (Letters, 29 August). Peter Millican serves up a flawed thesis on the benefits of...

Philistine spirit of today’s political age

When Joe Hockey, the Liberal Party opposition Treasury spokesman, ridiculed an Australian Research Council-funded project on the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel (“The God of Hegel’s Post-Kantian...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 19 September 2013

National strike ballot called on pay but Liverpool dispute resolved

Union members in higher education will be balloted for industrial action over the employers’ 1 per cent pay offer

FutureLearn Moocs unveiled

Registration on the UK’s first massive open online course platform has opened following a launch at the British Library.

Clinical trial transparency is criticised by MPs

A current lack of transparency in clinical trials is “unacceptable”, a cross-party group of MPs has said

Moocs UK will offer escape from ‘The Man’, says Bean

The UK’s first massive open online course platform will allow students to set their own targets and escape rules set by “The Man”

University debt could come under more scrutiny

Universities’ borrowing could come under more scrutiny with the form and extent of debts being part of risk assessments by England’s funding council

Inside Higher Ed: Faculty respond to threat to academic freedom

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed