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? 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 […]
Critical Thinking is Critical in Universities
In an age of homogeneous thinking, where peers, AI or a favorite social media personality or politician present perspectives as facts, it […]
Paul Bloom on Empathy
In 2016 psychologist Paul Bloom wrote a book titled Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (a naming decision he still wrestles […]
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 […]
Why the United States’ ‘War on Woke’ is a Threat to Educational Futures Everywhere
On November 4, 2024, the United States of America plunged into an era of unprecedented educational crisis. The ascendant presidency of Donald […]
