What are you reading? – 17 September 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Eternal dilemmas: interview with Mark Edmundson
Are you an idealist or a pragmatist? In his latest book, Self and Soul, Edmundson aims to provide fresh insights into how we might choose to live our lives
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What academics really do on their summer ‘holidays’
A long break sounds luxurious but what is the reality? Scholars share what they did with their ‘free’ time
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To stop REF game playing, why not let everyone take part?
David Price argues that axeing staff selection would remove the temptation to manipulate data and protect careers
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What have we learned from the Reproducibility Project?
Did a huge research replication exercise do a power of good? ask Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone
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Grant winners – 17 September 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 17 September 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Agreeing on the unequivocal
The Higher Education Policy Institute’s reports are meant to encourage debate, so it is good to see Howard Hotson’s response to our latest publication, Keeping up with the Germans, which I wrote (“...
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One for the archives
In his September speech to Universities UK, Jo Johnson reported (anecdotally) that some teaching was “lamentable” and he was “determined to address it”, but did not mention how (“Jo Johnson: research...
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Creative solutions
As chair of university English, I write to express our profound regret that the Department for Education has decided to discontinue the creative writing A level after the 2018 summer examinations....
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Instant regret
Clean energy from coffee grounds sounds wonderful (“Week in higher education”, News, 10 September), but soaking the grounds in sodium hydroxide (made by electrolysis, very energy-intensive) and then...