The case for more isn鈥檛 so simple, Mr Willetts
No one denies the wider benefits of a university degree. However, in his advocacy of an expansionist higher education policy (鈥淲hy the cap no longer fits鈥, 2 January), David Willetts, the...
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An apology and a New Year鈥檚 resolution!
Our editor writes:Dear Reader,Over the decades, The Poppletonian has kept its readers up to date with all the major happenings within our own university and within the wider world of higher education...
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The week in higher education - 9 January 2014
The notion that the First World War was a 鈥渕isbegotten shambles鈥 is a myth perpetuated by 鈥渓eft-wing academics鈥, according to Michael Gove, executing his own Schlieffen Plan to win a culture war over...
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Ring-fenced science budget under threat
V-cs fail to get David Willetts鈥 commitment to protect research spending
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Use 鈥榠mpact agenda鈥 to prove value, social sciences urged
LSE scholars call for 鈥榮horter, better, faster, free鈥 studies and bigger share of research funding
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Social media key to getting ahead, PhD students hear
Skills, reputation and peer networks can be built online even when stuck in the lab
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Campus in Focus - Queen Mary, University of London
A fresh era dawns for one of the Russell Group鈥檚 newest, and least typical, members. Plus the latest campus news from around the UK
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A paper-thin line
The recent spate of plagiarism scandals in Germany 鈥 which have toppled some senior politicians 鈥 has had an unexpected side-effect. Some academic researchers are reportedly so frightened of...
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Austerity is driving institutions closer together
Mergers and system restructures are increasing across Europe as a result of funding cuts
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Call for better protocols to cut waste in biomedical research
Research conduct, reporting and management needs overhaul, says Lancet study
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Innovation鈥檚 core values
Britain needs Fraunhofer centres as well as Catapults if the 鈥榠nvention revolution鈥 is to materialise, asserts Tim Holt
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Ciaran Driver, Andreas Hess, Karen McAulay, A.鈥塛. Purdue and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I, by Richard Ned Lebow
Richard J. Evans considers the comfort of the counterfactual
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The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553, by Tamara Atkin
With the stage set for passionate religious argument, Helen Smith takes her seat
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Fragments: Transcribing the Holocaust, by Frances Rapport with Anka Bergman, Terry Farago and Edith Salter
Robert Eaglestone on an attempt to capture barbarism in poetry, not prose