Category: Higher education

04/06/2019

Manchester is the clearest portrait of this new educational-industrial complex. The Manchester model: universities lead urban revival | Financial Times

10/04/2019

[University] teaching awards seemed to have been added like sticking plasters to organisations whose values lay elsewhere. Graham Gibbs, Item…

08/04/2019

James Williams worked at Google in a senior role for ten years, but has moved into philosophy at Oxford (for…

02/04/2019

A couple of articles from the two different domains of my professional life made me riff on some old memes.…

28/03/2019

All in the stars The story is about the ‘approval’ by the Norwegian higher education regulator of courses in astrology.…

26/03/2019

Our backpacks contained some clothes, but they were mainly stuffed with dreams. In July 1972, my wife Maureen and I…

19/02/2019

Quoted in Carel Stolker, ‘Rethinking the Law School’  According to a British survey among first‐year law students, the word that…

13/02/2019

This is from an article in the THE. Catherine Heymans is a physicist at the University of Edinburgh, who works…

09/01/2019

A beginner's guide to student loans in the public accounts | Wonkhe | Analysis  Bluntly, the main motive for replacing…

04/01/2019

Mary Midgley a Newcastle based philosopher died a fews ago. An obituary in the FT is here. I remember once…