Category: Higher education

  • 19/12/2019
    No, not Pasi Salberg, but cognate. But idealists now have another international beacon of social mobility: long live the Finnish…
  • 02/12/2019
    Obituaries are a source of much joy and enlightenment. None more so than those in the Economist. Last week's was…
  • 13/11/2019
    The following is from Janan Ganesh of the FT. The title of the article was "The agony of returning to…
  • 12/11/2019
    Andrew Wathey its chairman [of the UK Standing Committee for Quality Assessment] and vice-chancellor of Northumbria University, said: “The UK…
  • 08/11/2019
    From Wikipedia. Putt's Law: "Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage…
  • 06/11/2019
    From the Economist Dean Whiteboard writes... Going forward, we need three priorities. First, to get costs under control. The soup-to-nuts…
  • 04/11/2019
    The quote below is from a paper in PNAS on how students misjudge their learning and what strategies maximise learning.…
  • 30/10/2019
    The following is from an advert for a clinical academic in a surgical specialty, one with significant on call responsibilities.…
  • 22/10/2019
    The world has problems, as the old saying puts it, but universities have departments. Well not any more, I would…
  • 18/09/2019
    Chambers Street is closed for the filming of Fast and Furious 9, or so my regular barista at Bobby’s tells…