Category: Higher education

08/07/2015

This is from an excellent article by Andrew Hacker in the NYRB. He puts to bed various myths. Both tables tell…

30/06/2015

No, not the site run by Audrey Watters, nor about providing eduction for hackers, but  a site where you hire…

26/05/2015

Brittany Bronson is an English instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a restaurant server and a contributing opinion…

17/05/2015

I go this figure from here, and the source is here. I am trying to get my head around what…

20/04/2015

As this article notes, in the U.S., 25% of adjuncts are on social assistance. This means governments are subsidizing colleges…

25/03/2015

This was something I posted elsewhere awhile back, but if anything it seems even more appropriate now. From a  Nature editorial.…

01/03/2015

"“Universities are autonomous. Just because the government is paying doesn’t give them the right to override the autonomy of universities…

12/02/2015

Nice comment on a good article by Rich DeMillo (good==I agree with it). “It has much more to do with…

19/01/2015

Worth a view if you want to know a little bit more about where the UK may be going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofuhlR4LAgQ

30/12/2014

I like this, and agree with most of it. The issue that needs answering is what bits of learning require…