Category: worth a glance

01/06/2015

Neel Sharma: Reforms in medical education—are we missing something? But I think he is wrong on some points. The last thing…

18/05/2015

The $2.6 Billion Pill — Methodologic and Policy Considerations. Jerry Avorn in the NEJM. Understated article pointing out the figures…

05/05/2015

Wake-up call for UK as giants stir in the global student market. Around 20% of students at UK universities are…

03/04/2015

Change the cancer conversation. I was surprised to see this in Nature, but the article makes many arguments for why…

29/03/2015

The University of Everywhere. Audrey Watters takes a scalpel blade to The End of College. I am not entirely convinced by the…

22/03/2015

Children are not to talk about the exam. Pearson again, and the business of testing for profit. I think there…

14/03/2015

New private university for Hereford. Good. The business of paying for undergraduate education. And politics. Welfare for the corporations. Just remember this when the government…

07/03/2015

US schooling. Includes a view nice lines: The claim speaks volumes about the low status of education, which (along with politics)…

18/02/2015

Put that laptop away. Clay Shirky. This will run and run. No profit left behind. I am afraid I have a…

08/02/2015

For the next time you use JSTOR and think about the openness of science, John Naughton’s review of the ‘Internet’s own boy’…