Category: Higher education

18/01/2018

As Bryan Caplan points out in his new book, The Case Against Education, most of the earnings differential associated with…

11/01/2018

A new copy of Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien’s widely used introductory economics textbook costs more than some smartphones. The…

10/01/2018

The easiest way to predict the future is to prevent it. Original version is Alan Kay (the easiest way to…

03/01/2018

There is something about teaching that makes you a better researcher. I know this is very countercultural wisdom, but I…

02/01/2018

Like all good business people, he often knew better than the client what they needed. He once told The Guardian:…

20/12/2017

"In the harshest single sentence of an otherwise gentlemanly book, he calls the French educational system “a vast insider-trading crime”.…

19/12/2017

The distinctive characteristic of academics, their DNA, is doubt.”  Quoted in: An economist’s guide to the real world Just as the…

18/12/2017

Seems a nice term of phrase for what the academy might once have been (and still should be). But I…

15/12/2017

Recent years have seen a major drive by government, the NHS, and mental health charities to change attitudes towards mental…

13/12/2017

For example, graduate stipends at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are capped at $23,844 and are not adjusted…