The New Chimpanzee: A Twenty-First-Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin, by Craig Stanford
Book of the week: Laura Kehoe welcomes a significant contribution to our understanding of primates鈥 behaviour in the wild
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Conferences mean high times but low returns
Academic gatherings may be fun, but they do little to advance knowledge. To justify the public spending that supports them, such events must do more to provide benefits to those who don鈥檛 attend,...
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THE Leadership and Management Awards 2018 shortlist announced
Do you appear on this year鈥檚 shortlist?
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 12 April 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton.聽Finem respice!
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The USS strike and the winter of academics鈥 discontent
The protests against pensions reforms reflect not just self-interest but also anger about working conditions and a sense that universities are losing their way. Jack Grove explores how proposed...
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The threat to standards in UK universities
While their credentials are not in dispute, institutions could have their teaching and research undermined by a crisis in morale
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Give staff space to flag concerns about inequality
Kalwant Bhopal鈥檚 call for universities鈥 funding to be linked to their efforts to address racial inequality (鈥淭ie funding to tackling racial inequality, says professor鈥, News, 29 March) needs early...
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Dangerous stance
The co-authors鈥 response (Letters, 22 March) to my review of Transgender Children and Young People: Born In Your Own Body (Books, 15 March) miscasts my critique as personalised. I did not call them 鈥...
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End the 鈥榚e鈥 trend
I do hope that Robert Zaretsky鈥檚 tribute to Simone Weil (鈥淲ait 鈥 and see鈥, Opinion, 29 March) will be read by organisers of academic conferences and other events. They should, then, abandon the term...
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Unconditional fail
Much of the problem in 鈥淎s the lowest rise, so too do fears of grade inflation鈥 (News, 5 April) is not because of grade inflation but the issue of the 鈥渦nconditional for all鈥 approach seen in much of...