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 […]
The new language of sociology: ‘Line manager’
At some point during the past decade, the line managers began to arrive. Many sociology departments lost their ‘heads’, who then re-appeared […]
The new language of sociology: teaching-and-learning
Institutionalised sociology begins in the classroom. The classroom is the principal site in which sociologists communicate with non-sociologists or – idealistically – future sociologists about the ethos and knowledge of the discipline.
The glum future of the American liberal arts college
In a recent article for Miller-McCune Magazine, “‘Wither’ The Liberal Arts College?”, English professor Anne Trubek discusses the troubled state of American liberal […]
‘In defence of public higher education’
An ‘alternative white paper’ has been published this week in the UK setting out an alternative to the Government’s proposed reforms to […]
Alternative White Paper
The Campaign for the Public University is putting together an ‘Alternative White Paper’ on the future of HE funding and is calling […]
Protecting research degrees: why we must continue to train PhD students
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Paul Wellings At around this time of year, at least […]
Putting vision back into higher education: A response to the Government White Paper
There is no government mandate for the privatisation of higher education and for the despoiling of the social and cultural value of […]
