Category: Universities

  • 07/04/2025
    Alan Rusbridger writing in Prospect Do you remember Julian Assange’s catchphrase, “Courage is contagious?” I think he may have borrowed…
  • 01/04/2025
    The Scotsman leads today with the ongoing financial crisis at Dundee university: “Job loss tally at Dundee University rises to…
  • 25/03/2025
    Worthwhile Canadian Observations - Paul Krugman I don’t know what set Trump off on Canada, what made him think that…
  • 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…