12+ hour, 56+ min ago   (318+ words) Present. Peripheral. In the game but not counted. The question, then, is not only who is missing from our courses; it is who is present but kkakdugi. If participation in a live session depends on speaking quickly, some students are…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (396+ words) I finished in three years flat with no corrections. My first monograph was published a few months after graduation and went into a second edition a couple of years ago. My ambition, absurd as it sounds now, was to go…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (370+ words) Whatever else it may be, the Jason Arday affair is an illustration – and an acceleration – of the cultural right’s attacks on universities for supposedly being eroded by a fashion for inclusivity that overrides academic merit. At the same time, however,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (822+ words) Lincoln Bishop University being taken over by Global University Systems (GUS) could push the institution into a more “generalist” approach to higher education, but some see it as a preferable alternative to “managed decline”. The takeover, which will see the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (698+ words) Jason Arday’s memoir will be still released in the UK this week, his publishers have confirmed, with the late sociology professor’s family saying they want to “honour his wishes”. In their first public comments since after the academic was found…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (549+ words) Belgium’s Ghent University has suspended Nathan Cofnas, the controversial scholar whose blog accusing Jason Arday of plagiarism led to widespread public scrutiny of the late Cambridge professor’s academic record and personal achievements. The university said in a statement that it…...