Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
After the University, Where is Knowledge Headed?
Today, universities no longer function as stable centers of knowledge. Around the world, higher education is undergoing structural transformations. South Korea is […]
Notes on Political Repression, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University
In the second semester of my first year of full-time teaching as a “newly minted Ph.D.,” I stood before my class rehashing […]
After the University? Examining Ghana’s Higher Education Crisis and Transformation
Across the globe, universities are confronting an array of unprecedented challenges, including financial instability, governance issues, the evolving nature of academic work, […]
After the University? Braiding a Path Forward
Around the world, universities are in crisis. Some argue that we’re witnessing the slow collapse of the system as we’ve known it—whether […]
Higher Education In The UK Is In Crisis. We Need to Reimagine Its Very Purpose If It Is To Survive
Education systems do not operate outside of society or in a vacuum, they reflect wider dominant socio-economic approaches and discourses- the increasing […]
Democracy and the Authoritarian Turn in British Higher Education
It might seem that the current crisis of higher education is best illustrated by its most spectacular manifestations – perhaps Donald Trump’s […]
What Is a University For, After Gaza?
What is a university for? Traditionally, education has long been seen as a foundation for ethical and intellectual life. Aristotle viewed learning […]
Mutually Assured Distrust and the Gyrations of Trump’s Science Policy
Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. […]
