Category: Higher education

12/01/2017

“Trouble is, the intrusions cannot be ignored or wished away. Nor can the coercion. Take the case of Aaron Abrams.…

11/01/2017

Nice essay and phrase from Audrey Watters: Credential creep doesn’t solve the problem of credentialing at all, of course. But…

09/01/2017

Laurie Taylor in fine form "Our university is to appoint a “nostalgia liberation officer” to protect the small number of…

05/01/2017

“Four decades ago The City University of New York charged no tuition fees, and all its students were taught by…

03/01/2017

“Like bank robbers of old, investors turn to students “because that is where the money is”.” Danny Dorling in the…

02/01/2017

“…professors fixated on crawling alone the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass.” Quoted in the Economist 10/12/2011

01/01/2017

Geoffrey Boulton (University of Edinburgh) in, “What are Universities for?” A university that moulds itself only to present demands is…

31/12/2016

His introduction is  at 1:10 and his talk begins at 25:00. I would skip the Andreas Schleicher (aka Mr PISA)…

29/12/2016

(The ever insightful) Gregory Clark, an economist at the University of California, Davis, finds that students with Norman surnames from…

13/12/2016

I went to the OEB meeting for this first time this year. I was not certain how much I would…