Category: Higher education

22/03/2017

If you want to pick at the cracks of modern medicine, you look at psychiatry. This is not a criticism…

21/03/2017

For my studies I moved to Berlin and later to Innsbruck in the Tyrolean Alps. Innsbruck was a great place…

20/03/2017

This weekend, my wife and oldest daughter visited her first-choice college, the University of Tennessee. There was one curious moment…

16/03/2017

Refreshing to read an article in which I can find something to disagree with in almost every sentence. And the…

15/03/2017

One of my mantras is that unless we do the online better, we cannot make use of the offline opportunities.…

09/03/2017

Take your pick. Article in the Observer, a response, and Martin Wolf of the FT here(paywall) and here. Some sense…

06/03/2017

Interesting editorial in Nature. And unexpected. The issue is support for science and the state of politics in the US.…

03/03/2017

There is only one way to ensure that assessment is light-touch. Universities should rebrand themselves as banks. Comment (Mintaka) on…

27/02/2017

There is a good piece on Wonke by David Morris, dealing with the issue of how research and teaching are…

17/02/2017

Here. But your knew this already. This is not about truth, or doing the right thing, but about power and…