Category: Higher education

  • 29/08/2019
  • 26/08/2019
     Size matters Pace my earlier post, The Economist writes about the increase in student numbers at many UK universities (and…
  • 25/08/2019
    Education is an experience understood in tranquillity Nice few words about Charles Handy in the Economist who has been recovering…
  • 23/08/2019
    "I have wasted a lot of time living" John Gray on Michael Oakeshott He would have found the industrial-style intellectual…
  • 21/08/2019
    Awhile back I was sat in a cafe close to the university campus. I couldn't help but listen in on…
  • 02/07/2019
    It’s the economy stupid! The main story is about an ‘anti-vaxxer’ who had informed the university that he/she was opposed…
  • 30/06/2019
    Did you enjoy Uni? "The job prospects outweigh three years of misery.” The Economist | The glum ones Direct URL…
  • 24/06/2019
    The pleasures of tenure Mr Sammallahti is not a recluse, nor lacking in ambition. He travels the world taking photographs;…
  • 24/06/2019
    TEF or REF? Smith was supported by earnings from his professorship at Glasgow, where a university teacher’s earnings depended on…
  • 10/06/2019
    Transfer A not wildly unsurprising comment to anybody in the ‘modern’ university.  A comment Russ Roberts made in an interview…