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education and culture
Beware the child catcher: the doom and groom theory of campus terror
Times Higher Education Supplement,
31 January 2008
Whitehall's unhelpful new advice on student radicalisation paints a luridly inaccurate picture of vulnerable naifs and sinister brainwashers.
There’s no added value in sales talk
Times Higher Education Supplement,
14 December 2007
'Student-centred' policies that see academic study as a mere commercial contract cheat both pupil and scholar.
Boundaries are there to be leapt
Times Higher Education Supplement,
19 October 2007
A visit to a US college filled me with the hope that UK academics too can cross the disciplinary divides that hold them back.
Is there no room left for reflection?
Times Higher Education Supplement,
14 September 2007
'Research' and 'scholarship' are not the same thing. Funding-council culture has seriously devalued the latter.
The distorted vision of Dearing
Times Higher Education Supplement,
10 August 2007
Students are now customers, demanding satisfaction and skills. Whatever happened to learning?
Making a Balls-up of education
spiked,
11 July 2007
As schools minister Ed Balls calls for lessons in emotional and economic wellbeing, it’s clear the Brown government is as philistine as the Blairites.
This principle is not negotiable
Times Higher Education Supplement,
6 July 2007
If monitoring Muslim groups threatens free speech, then surely boycotting Israeli academics does too.
Hijacking education
spiked,
12 June 2007
From global warming alarmism dressed up as Geography to 'happiness teaching' through yoga: the classroom has been hijacked by zealous campaigners who care little for pedagogy.
Tick yes to raise the standard
Times Higher Education Supplement,
25 May 2007
Standardised marking will be no fairer than what we have now and will lead to a grading system that discounts individuals' achievements
I refuse to jump through hoops
Times Higher Education Supplement,
13 April 2007
Performance management won't make universities more effective; instead it will distract academics from their work and breed institutional cynicism
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