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The way things are going...
...next Sunday's News of the World newspaper will cost you £24.83 a copy, and probably be written by unpaid interns ( Read more... ) -
Naomi Schaefer Riley - Why Unions Hurt Higher Education.
Everything worth saying about this has already been said via e-mail and elsewhere. Link is for reference only:
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An inelegant evisceration.
In healthier times, the ongoing spat between Richard Vedder and Anthony Carnevale on the topic of the value of college degrees might've made it as far as the attackademia community. However, nobody posts anything there any more, and the utter grimness/futility of the arguments (not to mention the implicit spectre of a familiar refrain concerning lies, damned ( Read more... ) -
Terrifying made-up word of the week (last week, actually): Cosmetologist.
As some of you are aware, I'm currently banging heads together in an attempt to prevent already cash-strapped UK universities losing even more wonga through the sort of accounting practice that would give an innumerate chimpanzee with a broken abacus a bad name. Cuts are one thing, but ineptly oversubscribing student numbers to the point where the ( Read more... ) -
Not that people seem to be making some very dull choices with what remains of their lives...
...but I'd like to stress that, as an alternative, careers in crime still represent a fascinating growth area, and you don't have to be just another Eugene Smith:
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/5181_DeLisi_I_Proof_Chapter_1.pdf
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But is being poor the new sexy? And what happened to the old sexy? (Oh, here I am.)
If you didn't already know that this post was - and is - about academia, I could probably get away with a few off-colour metaphors about the sex trade before you twigged.* It almost seems a shame to waste 'em, but now the cat's out of the bag ( Read more... ) -
Unseen Toronto.
Aspects of the recent G20 summit were criminally under-reported in the UK, particularly the attendant protests and police over-reaction to same. As the video caption says, pay attention - this is what a police state looks like:
With thanks to disinfo ( wtf?, mytubes, economics, a little bit o' politics, linksGaia's pissed off at ALL of you, for f*cking with her arteries.
Interesting angle on the seemingly interminable, Obama popularity ratings decline-inspired anti-BP hatefest ( Read more... )
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