Category: Universities

  • 13/05/2024
    Universities in the market place Adam Tooze has written thoughtfully about the student demonstrations at Columbia, and I came across…
  • 02/02/2024
    End of science (as we once knew it) Citation cartels help some mathematicians—and their universities—climb the rankings | Science |…
  • 08/12/2023
    When capital and ideals clash, capital smothers ideals in their sleep Mammon | No Mercy / No Malice The collapse…
  • 27/08/2023
    Essay grades: not funky, just tight Letters · LRB Lorna Finlayson’s Diary took me back to the 1970s when my…
  • 30/07/2023
    Peer review Shakespeare’s First Folio assembled the world’s greatest literature from TheEconomist In 1612 the founder of Oxford University’s Bodleian…
  • 20/07/2023
    UK Academia UK universities set to secure big cut in pensions bill | Financial Times Comment by shug4476 in response…
  • 07/01/2023
    All dressed up and nowhere to go How I Got Here | No Mercy / No Malice Tenure is a…
  • 12/12/2022
    Link I entered academia as an established professional musician, and I continue to work as a performer, but my research…
  • 09/12/2022
    Pond Life: Princeton PhD inspires campus novel | Times Higher Education (THE) When Jack Williams heard his PhD dissertation would…
  • 14/10/2021
    Twin miseries It was not deliberate policy; it simply seemed to be only men who applied, usually refugees from the…