Category: Higher education

  • 14/04/2020
    The millennial generation — the first to have lived entirely inside the mature meritocracy — appreciates these burdens most keenly.…
  • 10/04/2020
    Many years ago I acted as the host of a visiting US dermatologist. He was due to give lectures in…
  • 06/04/2020
    35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he…
  • 26/03/2020
    A majority of people in Britain now in their seventies spent some of their childhood growing up in social housing…
  • 25/03/2020
    In one of Paul Graham’s essays, he writes about the relation between a thriving society and how parents behave (he…
  • 18/03/2020
    I wish I had said that In discussing some aspects of Higher Education, Dennis Tourish writes: On all sides, it…
  • 04/03/2020
    I have spend a lot of time recently sifting through the detritus of a career. Finally — well, I hope,…
  • 31/01/2020
    Today is my last day of (paid) work, and of course a day that will be infamous for many more…
  • 17/01/2020
    I don’t like the work-life balance meme. I know what it means, but I never wanted it. Medicine was once…
  • 08/01/2020
    Perhaps, perhaps not. But when and where is even more important. Hailed as a maths prodigy at school, Shields accepted…