The Plashing Vole

Hi all. It's Friday afternoon and it's been a mixed week, to put it politely. Last weekend was rather glorious: a trip to The Glo...

So here I am, back at my desk after our first 2 hour strike in pursuit of our pay claim. In case you haven't been following it, we'v...

One of my colleagues posed an intriguing question yesterday: if we were asked to nominate one book that all humanities, law and social scien...

I got an email this morning from a student who failed her first assignment and partially plagiarised the re-sit. Because I'm in a preach...

Good afternoon everybody. I've spent the day in meetings. Lots of meetings. Mostly meetings about the student experience (I suspect th...

Another day, another survey pointing out that students are getting barely more time in lectures, weakly tied in with unexamined claims that...

I've got two book reviews to write today, so I need to get my brain working and my typing finger warmed up. What better way than to hav...

Here's a song that could have been written for the Papal Conclave which as you know, vents white smoke when a Pope has been elected and ...

Amongst the many idiocies perpetrated by Michael Gove, that state-funded troll, is his decision to focus on "the great works of the l...