More higher ed summer reading

I still know what you read this summer.

Every year we get lists of great summer reading suggestions from the broadsheets and even Times Higher Education for university staff and students. Last year I joined in the fun with this handy list of the #HigherEd books everyone should have read. Some of the highlights included:

Getting titters on Twitter or how to craft the perfectly droll 140 character epigram – a primer for senior university managers
Dalmatians 101: setting up puppy rooms in student services
Almost out of office – a guide to minimising tedious summer email for academics
The place of the mace – identifying graduation paraphernalia
UKRI or I cry, Hef-see or Hef-key? The definitive sector agency pronunciation guide
How to dig “digs”: Understanding contemporary trends in student accommodation
True Grime on Campus- the world’s best academic graffiti
Registrars and their registers
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum – cross-cultural sensitivities in setting up campuses overseas

The latest additions to the list include this terrific selection of higher education related reading:

Graduation speeches – the long, the bad and the irrelevant
100 years of solitude – research in the arts
The man in the high castle – the biggest and best Vice-Chancellor residences
Bleak houses: student accommodation through the ages
Why didn’t they ask Evans? Arguments for total academic democracy
A month in the country – it really is research not vacation
A gun for hire? Making campus carry pay
Fresh or fake? The administrator’s guide to graduation flower arranging.
I’ve got a brand new combine harvester – agricultural economics in the Archers
BUCS for Schmucks – student sport for beginners
Preparing your TEF appeal
The Essay Mill on the Floss
The Cruel Fee – student debt in the 21st century
Homage to Catalonia – a most unusual year abroad
Lady Chatterley’s Liver – cirrhosis and the nobility
I spy UK HEIs
I spy alternative providers
Bloaty McBloatface – unevidenced commentary on the growth of university administration
Hug a Hoodie – the impact of public displays of affection on graduates
Cartel! Comparing and contrasting universities and Colombian drug barons
An exam board chair’s guide to extenuating circumstances
Footnoting for fun
More Champagne Madam? Student accommodation gets classy
The ministry of fear – universities and the DfE
For whom the bell tolls – universities and their clocktowers
Our man in Havana – managing international recruitment agents
From frenzy to scramble – an A to Z of Clearing terms