Sweeping Leaves

Monday, 29 September 2014

This sporting life

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I noticed that a couple of 'my' teams are sponsored by universities.  Ospreys by Swansea University (and also by Neath Post Talbot C...
Friday, 19 September 2014

Neverendum? Neverlegislatum!

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Blimey! An extraordinary day yesterday in Scotland, and already an extraordinary morning in UK politics. Here’s a lesson from higher educati...
Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Do universities really not care about students?

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The Daily Telegraph today carried an article by Graeme Paton , the gist of which is that top universities don’t care about students. Let’s l...
Monday, 15 September 2014

It's very complicated

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Take a look at this article in the University World News , reporting work done by Claud Xiao and Rob Downs at Palo Alto Networks , a US inte...
Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Independent thinking

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I posted recently on Scottish independence and what it might mean for students and universities. There’s a parallel question, of course, abo...
Friday, 5 September 2014

Occupational hazard

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The NATO conference in South Wales this week – preparations and protests! – has given me cause to think about student occupations, and what ...
Monday, 1 September 2014

Academic dinosaurs?

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A strand of the public discourse around higher education, since the coalition’s funding reforms in 2010, has been about how alternative prov...
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