14 December 2017 What Is The Point Of University? Dissatisfaction increases. by Lynda Goetz Over the last few months student loans and university tuition fees have been in the news, as well as the apparently excessive pay of a number of university vice-chancellors. In a week when the latter subject has once again been the… Continue reading Issue 133: 2017 12 14: What is the point of university? (Lynda Goetz)
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Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Oxford (Chin Chin)
09 March 2017 Oxford – An Education For The Feeble Minded? Safe spaces scores should sort the sheep from the goats. By Chin Chin We all like reading about witchcraft and that is one of the main reasons why, when I saw that Michael Gove’s article Silencing dissent will blight our universities in Friday’s The Times… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Oxford (Chin Chin)
Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Polonius’s Moment (Chin Chin)
08 September 2016 Polonius’s Moment What to say to them as they go off to university. By Chin Chin The beginning of the academic year is the time for a Polonius speech. Student loans are in place to cover university fees but the amount available for living expenses looks woefully thin. It is the moment… Continue reading Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Polonius’s Moment (Chin Chin)
Issue 64: 2016 07 28: University Education (John Watson)
28 July 2016 University Education The need for reform. By John Watson It was inevitable, I suppose, that universities would eventually lift charges to their students to take account of inflation. It was also inevitable that their ability to do so would be linked to the quality of the teaching. After all, if the student… Continue reading Issue 64: 2016 07 28: University Education (John Watson)
Issue 58: 2016 06 16: How to survive being a millennial parent (Serena Sinclair)
16 June 2016 How To Survive… Millenials A guide for both sides of the generation gap. by Serena Sinclair For those who are unsure of what exactly a millennial is, then in a nutshell, they are the generation born at the end of the last millennium, roughly those aged between 15 and 35. They share… Continue reading Issue 58: 2016 06 16: How to survive being a millennial parent (Serena Sinclair)
Issue 6: 2015 06 11: Exams – a bipartisan approach is needed
11 June 2015 Exams – a bipartisan approach is needed by John Watson It is that time of year again. The summer is the exam season and it is also the time for new proposals regarding the examination system. This time it is Tristram Hunt, Labour’s education spokesman who says that, had Labour taken power,… Continue reading Issue 6: 2015 06 11: Exams – a bipartisan approach is needed
