Howard Hotson: university reforms reflect materialism
University of Oxford historian calls on academics to fight back against changes based on a ‘demonstrably inadequate account of human nature’
University of Oxford historian calls on academics to fight back against changes based on a ‘demonstrably inadequate account of human nature’
David Willetts has rejected accusations that he wants to introduce a US-style model of higher education in a response to criticisms from a University of Oxford academic.
Frank Furedi’s piece on how the post-Brexit response suggests an out-of-touch scholarly class is strangely post-factual (“Brexit pity parties show how out of touch academia is”, Opinion, 14 July)....
Although Howard Hotson is correct that the earliest university to be established in what is now the European Union was Bologna (1088), he should cast his net more widely to identify the first “...
As academics from leading universities, we are concerned about the implications of the Higher Education and Research Bill. We worry that it will reduce the quality of what is a world-leading sector...
The Higher Education Policy Institute’s reports are meant to encourage debate, so it is good to see Howard Hotson’s response to our latest publication, Keeping up with the Germans, which I wrote (“...
In the continuing debate on the appropriateness of metrics as a tool in the evaluation of research quality, particularly for the next research excellence framework, citation counts are frequently...
With expertise being vilified, institutions must re-establish their relevance to ‘real people’. Fortunately, they are ideally placed to do so
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
Geoffrey Alderman appears to argue that the state has no right to seek to regulate in any way universities that receive public funding for student education or research (Letters, 25 October).I agree...
Open letter to Hefce and UUK chiefs attracts 169 signatures as quality assessment and TEF proposals debated
National attitudes to universities echo the Bundesliga-Premier League contrast, says John Morgan