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...