Jumping off the page
When Jorge Cham adapted his hugely popular PhD cartoon for film, he eschewed animation and hired real Caltech students and academics for his comically true-to-life doctoral tales. Paul Jump reports
When Jorge Cham adapted his hugely popular PhD cartoon for film, he eschewed animation and hired real Caltech students and academics for his comically true-to-life doctoral tales. Paul Jump reports
A Passion for Difference
Australian High Commission in India web page on education had link to US company offering to write dissertations, application letters and more
Understanding Derrida. First edition
The March of the Women
The two winning entries in our competition explore the arguments for and against independence and what it might mean for the academy
How a ‘freelance ghostwriter’ haunts the sector
Websites launch new services as they aim to stand out in an increasingly crowded market
Louise Glück’s timeless essays about poetry are piquant declarations, writes David Gewanter
New version of OpenAI’s chatbot can interpret images and tutor students
Dale Salwak laments the decline of deep reading under the baleful influence of the online age, and rallies to the defence of the love of learning, the sequestered nooks and the sweet serenity of books
David Matthews investigates the scale and threat of the custom essay industry
As undergraduate numbers soar and student needs become increasingly complex, questions are being asked about whether a support model that relies on the conscientiousness of individual academics is...
An anonymous ‘freelance ghostwriter’ explains how universities have little defence against personalised services of this kind