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  • 19/03/2025
    The Professional-Managerial Class Has No Future - by Peter Wei I came to this via The Browser. Unlike traditional elites…

  • 08/12/2023
    When capital and ideals clash, capital smothers ideals in their sleep Mammon | No Mercy / No Malice The collapse…

  • 27/08/2023
    Essay grades: not funky, just tight Letters · LRB Lorna Finlayson’s Diary took me back to the 1970s when my…

  • 02/08/2023
    Playing a corrupt signalling system The ticking clock for America’s legacy admissions | Financial Times This article from the FT…

  • 30/07/2023
    Peer review Shakespeare’s First Folio assembled the world’s greatest literature from TheEconomist In 1612 the founder of Oxford University’s Bodleian…

  • 20/07/2023
    UK Academia UK universities set to secure big cut in pensions bill | Financial Times Comment by shug4476 in response…

  • 19/07/2023
    Rees’s law of education (After a John Hennessy quote that the time to assess a Stanford degree is ten years…

  • 07/01/2023
    All dressed up and nowhere to go How I Got Here | No Mercy / No Malice Tenure is a…

  • 29/11/2021
    higher education had become just too important to be allowed to be free Free: as in free speech rather than…

  • 27/06/2021
    A comment on this article on the WONKHE site. Scale matters, but not in the way that the C-suite want.…