Should conscientious academics ignore their email?
However you handle them, emails are a source of stress. But there are ways to minimise it, says Emma Russell
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Research assessment: an exercise in futility
Having caused a scandal over research assessment back in the 1990s, Lincoln Allison is well placed to give an overview of its impact, and still finds it wanting
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What are you reading? – 5 October 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker
Book of the week: Richard Joyner on how insomnia damages our well-being – and how to get a good night’s rest
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New and noteworthy – 5 October 2017
The key players behind game theory; human rights; the microbial life on your kitchen counter; the beauty of maths; and the sedation of our perception of beauty
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The tough hand dealt to young people
Theresa May’s tweaks to tuition fees may not be enough to quell the disquiet over the current system, says John Gill
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Laurie Taylor – 5 October 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Student mental health is falling under the radar
In the wake of last month’s freshers’ week activities at universities throughout the country, many students are going through a time of transition as they get used to being away from home, establish...
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Screen time
Reading “Online courses ‘more time-consuming’ to prepare for, study says” (News, 21 September), I had to remind myself as to the non-urban areas in which bears, generally, answer the call of nature....
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Crowded house
It’s hard to know what to say in response to a proposed target for 70 per cent of young people to enter higher education, because the 50 per cent target was insane (“UK urged to set 70 per cent...
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Think twice
“Authors Richard Wilding and Emel Aktas found that there was no correlation between staff-to-student ratios, which they treat as a proxy for class sizes, and the TEF awards” (“‘No link’ between class...
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Workplace envy
I am an administrator in an academic department and suffer far greater resource envy than pay envy, appalled though I am by the different percentage increase between classes of staff. Our workloads...