Academic diary: or, Why higher education still matters

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Introduction : Academic time -- Autumn term. 10 September : graduation -- 15 September : everyone has a teacher story -- 17 September : letter to a new student -- 20 September : welcome week -- 25 September : Goldsmiths and its district -- 27 September : ratology -- 28 September : students not suspects -- 7 October : open day -- 12 October : Stuart Hall lessons -- 25 October : teaching -- 31 October : The uses of literacy today -- 5 November : death by PowerPoint -- 8 November : the value in academic writing -- 20 November : research expenses -- 27 November : extra curricular -- 29 November : college green -- 3 December : meeting John Berger -- 9 December : an education of sorts -- 10 December : class mobility -- 17 December : Bourdieu behind bars -- 29 December : New Year's honours -- Spring term. 10 January : the diary disease -- 16 January : remembering Paul -- 18 January : recognition -- 25 January : holding the fort -- 5 February : academic uses and abuses of Twitter -- 12 February : generosity as a strategy for survival -- 26 February : professionals and amateurs -- 7 March : reading and remembering -- 10 March : campus watch -- 15 March : writing routines and the torture of starting -- 21 March : that special pen -- 1 April : viral warning -- 10 April : ivory towers -- 16 April : conference etiquette -- 19 April : Academic rights -- 20 April : the devil you know -- 2 May : supervision -- 9 May : thinking together -- 16 May : the doublethink of open access -- 20 May : against intellectual suicide -- The summer. 7 June : silence please -- exam in progress -- 9 June : the exam board -- 14 June : on the occasion of retirement -- 20 June : the writer's desk -- 30 June : the library angel -- 4 July : the PhD viva -- 17 July : writing and scholastic style -- 24 July : 'and what do you do for a living ...?' -- 19 August : Primo Levi's house -- 31 August : lost notebook -- Afterword : How the diary came to be written in the first place -- Tips, leads and follow-ups -- Universities in changing times -- Campus fictions -- Students, learning and teaching -- On writing and writers -- Intellectual life and its purpose -- Heroes and heroines -- Music as a hinterland.;Sharp and witty observations of academic life that range from the local to the global, from PowerPoint to the halls of power. Introduction : Academic time -- Autumn term. 10 September : graduation -- 15 September : everyone has a teacher story -- 17 September : letter to a new student -- 20 September : welcome week -- 25 September : Goldsmiths and its district -- 27 September : ratology -- 28 September : students not suspects -- 7 October : open day -- 12 October : Stuart Hall lessons -- 25 October : teaching -- 31 October : The uses of literacy today -- 5 November : death by PowerPoint -- 8 November : the value in academic writing -- 20 November : research expenses -- 27 November : extra curricular -- 29 November : college green -- 3 December : meeting John Berger -- 9 December : an education of sorts -- 10 December : class mobility -- 17 December : Bourdieu behind bars -- 29 December : New Year's honours -- Spring term. 10 January : the diary disease -- 16 January : remembering Paul -- 18 January : recognition -- 25 January : holding the fort -- 5 February : academic uses and abuses of Twitter -- 12 February : generosity as a strategy for survival -- 26 February : professionals and amateurs -- 7 March : reading and remembering -- 10 March : campus watch -- 15 March : writing routines and the torture of starting -- 21 March : that special pen -- 1 April : viral warning -- 10 April : ivory towers -- 16 April : conference etiquette -- 19 April : Academic rights -- 20 April : the devil you know -- 2 May : supervision -- 9 May : thinking together -- 16 May : the doublethink of open access -- 20 May : against intellectual suicide -- The summer. 7 June : silence please -- exam in progress -- 9 June : the exam board -- 14 June : on the occasion of retirement -- 20 June : the writer's desk -- 30 June : the library angel -- 4 July : the PhD viva -- 17 July : writing and scholastic style -- 24 July : 'and what do you do for a living ...?' -- 19 August : Primo Levi's house -- 31 August : lost notebook -- Afterword : How the diary came to be written in the first place -- Tips, leads and follow-ups -- Universities in changing times -- Campus fictions -- Students, learning and teaching -- On writing and writers -- Intellectual life and its purpose -- Heroes and heroines -- Music as a hinterland.