Castles in the sands of time
Two summers, on the beaches of Greece and in the libraries of New York, define what the 鈥渓ong vac鈥 meant to John Sutherland
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Casual exploitation must become history
The sweatshop conditions in which sessional academics work in Australia mirror the treatment of schoolteachers in Victorian times, say Hannah Forsyth and Jedidiah Evans聽
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The truth is out there: a philosopher鈥檚 journey in Norway
Stephen Mumford tells Matthew Reisz about his desire to bring his discipline to a wider audience, why Norway was the perfect place to write his Cartesian debut novel and why insights into causation...
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What are you reading? 鈥 29 June 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond, by Emily Mayhew
Book of the week: Joanna Bourke on the gruelling truths faced by injured soldiers, and their carers and families
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Weaving a tale of spiders and sexbots
In his new column that will focus on unusual books and interesting developments in academic publishing, Matthew Reisz considers a strange and mind-bendingly entertaining book
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Grant winners 鈥 29 June 2017
A round-up of聽academics awarded research council funding
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 29 June 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton.聽Finem respice!
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A great responsibility
Few in academia will have celebrated Brexit鈥檚 first anniversary but the unpredictable year since the vote has shown the power of a united voice
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TEF: tales of mismeasures and sour grapes
Edward Peck, the vice-chancellor of Nottingham Trent University, argues 鈥淒on鈥檛 attack the TEF, embrace it鈥 (Opinion, 23 June). Such a view makes me despair. The teaching excellence framework does not...
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Hallway supervisors
Re your story on the University of Northampton鈥檚 new campus, 鈥淗ot-desking appears on horizon as Waterside project nears completion鈥 (News, 22 June). I remember being without a designated office space...
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Unhealthy diversion
I have a great deal of sympathy with the views of Philip Chan about the diversion of funds from teaching student doctors to research (鈥淢edical education is a聽rich patient at risk of being bled dry鈥,...