Grant winners – 24 December 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
Search
-
-
Academics must face EU’s ‘inconvenient truth’
Only a Brexit can deliver the pro-higher education regime UK universities need, argues Jamie Martin
-
A professor’s Boxing Day diary
Emma Rees tackles work, the ultimate seasonal fun spoiler, and finalises her list of new year’s resolutions
-
The scholarly gift that keeps on giving
Shahidha Bari examines the ritual of exchanging Christmas presents as she mulls the best gift that academics can share
-
Laurie Taylor: Christmas at Poppleton University
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
-
What the REF review needs
It is good that Baron Stern of Brentford, a known sceptic of the research excellence framework, will chair a review of the exercise, but given the nature of these things I am doubtful of any positive...
-
Harsh truths
Journalists – if not their editors – were once thought to be capable of boldly digging for the truth at the expense of the reputations of others, but how many academics dare tread that path (“Could...
-
Curriculum building
While I have no problem at all with involving students as partners (or producers) who advise on teaching and review reading lists, the real problem – from a design perspective – is that while those...
-
Selective hearing
Perhaps it would be more accurate for the article on highly selective universities lowering their entry standards to point out that so-called “elite universities” are no longer quite so elite (“Elite...
-
Painful memorials
Statues such as the one of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford, are actually important as physical memorials to the acts that were perpetrated (“Oxford college agrees to remove Cecil Rhodes plaque...