Category: Higher education

  • 12/07/2020
    Britain’s universities increasingly look like the late Soviet economy, running down their social capital behind a glitzy screen of Potemkin…
  • 06/07/2020
    Meliorism certified In 1947, Hobsbawm had excused his acceptance of the Birkbeck post by explaining that teaching preparations never took…
  • 02/07/2020
    One thing that sticks with me from medical school onwards (both as student and faculty) is the partisan nature of…
  • 26/06/2020
    Another telling figure from Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology. The stiking thing about much of this book is how predicable…
  • 25/06/2020
    Another revealing figure from Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology. French education is highly stratified but this pattern will be there…
  • 18/06/2020
    Story 1 I started my dermatological career in Vienna in the mid-1980s as a guest (I am deliberately not using…
  • 10/06/2020
    Being an emeritus professor has lots of advantages. You have time to follow your thoughts and allow your reading to…
  • 08/06/2020
    From Capital and Ideology, by Thomas Piketty. Discuss... Online link
  • 27/04/2020
    The papers — at least the FT and Guardian — are full of woes about COVID-19 and Higher Education in…
  • 22/04/2020
    Interesting article from a final-year PhD student in Bristol. She writes: Around one week before lockdown, Public Health England sent…