The AHRC and BS again, and again
A remarkable number of people have already signed the online petition to remove “The Big Society” as a strategic area for AHRC funding. If you are an arts UK academic or grad student, you might want to...
View ArticleThank heavens that’s over …
Examining, I mean. For the last time ever. And, after a long-drawn-out and rather depressing experience marking tripos, at least I finished on a high note, viva-ing a particularly excellent M.Phil....
View ArticleStefan Collini on the very idea of a university.
I much admire Stefan Collini’s writing on the current situation in UK universities (see here, for example). He has a book forthcoming next year What are Universities For? which should be a major event...
View ArticleUniversities, galleries and Stefan Collini
I read Stefan Collini’s What are Universities For? last week with very mixed feelings. In the past, I’ve much admired his polemical essays on the REF, “impact”, the Browne Report, etc. in the London...
View ArticleThe Decline of the West, Episode 42
Here’s a very dispiriting new blog post by Tim Gowers about the dire state of school maths teaching in the UK. I’m a bit surprised, though, that he’s surprised by what he discovered (but then being in...
View ArticleStefan Collini writes again about the attack on universities
In the latest London Review of Books, Stefan Collini writes again from the heart and with critical incisiveness about the privatisation disasters befalling British universities. Here’s his peroration:...
View ArticleLogic matters, but not that much, apparently …
Looking at the Leiter blog … and no, this isn’t going to be about certain recent kerfuffles, where there has perhaps been rather too much rushing to judgement. As I was saying, looking at the Leiter...
View ArticleM.M. McCabe: the crisis of the universities
Talking together, talking to ourselves: Socrates and the crisis of the universities. Here Prof. McCabe says with passion and eloquence and learning what many of us think and sometimes, so much more...
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Aberystwyth sunset
Old College, Aberystwyth, at sunset The Guardian has published its latest rankings of UK universities. These things mustn’t be taken too seriously, of course. But I see that Aberystwyth, where I taught...
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Philosophical remnants/Notes on Category Theory v.3
So, over the last months, quite a few more large boxes of books have gone to Oxfam. I have kept almost all my logic books. But in three years I must have given away some three quarters of my...
View ArticleEncore #2: University “reforms”
I am now doubly removed from the impact of the various “reforms” to universities in the UK and beyond. For one thing, those of us in Cambridge are well protected in various ways from the worst effects....
View ArticleThank heavens that’s over …
Examining, I mean. For the last time ever. And, after a long-drawn-out and rather depressing experience marking tripos, at least I finished on a high note, viva-ing a particularly excellent M.Phil....
View ArticleStefan Collini on the very idea of a university.
I much admire Stefan Collini’s writing on the current situation in UK universities (see here, for example). He has a book forthcoming next year What are Universities For? which should be a major event...
View ArticleUniversities, galleries and Stefan Collini
I read Stefan Collini’s What are Universities For? last week with very mixed feelings. In the past, I’ve much admired his polemical essays on the REF, “impact”, the Browne Report, etc. in the London...
View ArticleThe Decline of the West, Episode 42
Here’s a very dispiriting new blog post by Tim Gowers about the dire state of school maths teaching in the UK. I’m a bit surprised, though, that he’s surprised by what he discovered (but then being in...
View ArticleStefan Collini writes again about the attack on universities
In the latest London Review of Books, Stefan Collini writes again from the heart and with critical incisiveness about the privatisation disasters befalling British universities. Here’s his peroration:...
View ArticleLogic matters, but not that much, apparently …
Looking at the Leiter blog … and no, this isn’t going to be about certain recent kerfuffles, where there has perhaps been rather too much rushing to judgement. As I was saying, looking at the Leiter...
View ArticleM.M. McCabe: the crisis of the universities
Talking together, talking to ourselves: Socrates and the crisis of the universities. Here Prof. McCabe says with passion and eloquence and learning what many of us think and sometimes, so much more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aberystwyth sunset
Old College, Aberystwyth, at sunset The Guardian has published its latest rankings of UK universities. These things mustn’t be taken too seriously, of course. But I see that Aberystwyth, where I taught...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Philosophical remnants/Notes on Category Theory v.3
So, over the last months, quite a few more large boxes of books have gone to Oxfam. I have kept almost all my logic books. But in three years I must have given away some three quarters of my...
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