Giving a voice to the voiceless in Baltimore
Ron Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is correct when he says that there is a “surfeit of history here, in terms of Hopkins’ relationship with the city” (“The university as...
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A mere letter?
At its final session in committee on the Higher Education and Research Bill on 30 January, the House of Lords debated amendments on the proposals for UK Research and Innovation. Lord Prior, only a...
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Nothing personal
Nothing personal Your correspondent is quite right about the Open University’s retention problem with only 14 to 17 per cent of its students graduating within seven years (“Openly self-seeking”,...
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Laurie Taylor – 16 February 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Universities: building understanding as hate speech proliferates
Higher education has an important role in healing divides based on the distortion of religious beliefs, say Sami Everett and Ed Kessler
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Free up academics to solve UK higher education problems
Toby Miller on the lessons that other countries could teach universities in the UK
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Asia Universities Summit 2017: final programme revealed
The event in South Korea will include the official launch of the THE Asia University Rankings