Laurie Taylor – 9 August 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Laurie Taylor – 2 August 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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India’s ever-decreasing circles of eminence
India’s downsized Institutes of Eminence programme has dashed the hopes of those keen to see an improvement in higher education quality, says Pushkar
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Scientific collaborators are not disposable
Cutting partner labs out of awarded grant budgets is a common but destructive phenomenon in modern academia, says Anne Carpenter
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Embracing the old-buffer zone
He may once have disdained older scholars, but, having reached seniority in a managerialist age, John Brinnamoor now values their ability to say what others can’t
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China is becoming African students’ destination du jour
The high cost and visa complexity associated with Western higher education is driving a mushrooming number of African students east, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok
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Appointments – 9 August 2018
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New Zealand work rights to ‘incentivise’ study outside Auckland
City of Sails sidelined, as government boosts job entitlements
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Russell Group attacks ‘short-term’ approach to monitoring access
Experts express concern that call for five-year access agreements is a ‘distraction technique’
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Unconditional offers limit students’ education choices
A guaranteed offer of a place on a degree course gives students peace of mind, but it also means they are unlikely to make considered decisions about their most appropriate future path, argues Jane...
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German and Swedish libraries shrug off Elsevier shutdown
No sign of breakthrough as boycott yet to have significant impact on publisher
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Women ‘systematically excluded’ from Japanese medical school
Females out, bureaucrat’s son in as Tokyo Medical University rigs entrance scores
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Forget Trump, the threat to science comes from within
Experts are out of fashion with today’s political vanguard, but fraudulent research risks further undermining science, says THE’s Asia-Pacific editor John Ross