Category: Higher education

  • 07/10/2020
    I read Malcolm Bradbury’s satire The History Man many decades ago and loved it as a satire on university life…
  • 06/10/2020
    You don’t need a college degree I dislike agreeing with the corporation that is Google as I am always suspicious…
  • 03/10/2020
    That “scientific management” bungled the algorithm for children’s exam results, verifies a maxim attributed to J.R. Searle, an American philosopher:…
  • 02/10/2020
    The following is from Scot Galloway at NYU Stern. He shoots from the hip, and sometimes only thinks afterwards. But…
  • 30/09/2020
    The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought, and civilized modes of…
  • 26/09/2020
    No certification, here. As miserable in the job as he was smart, autodidactic, and headstrong, he managed to escape a…
  • 24/09/2020
    The following is from the Economist and is about schoolteachers. A bigger question is how many of the new trainees…
  • 03/09/2020
    No, not that sort of skin trade, but inking1. This is from an article in the Economist, and sadly, although…
  • 03/09/2020
    Education is... Mr Handy says this gave him the opportunity to learn from his mistakes in private. He argues that…
  • 27/08/2020
    A few months back, I was walking past the entrance of the old Edinburgh Medical School, founded in 1726. A…