Jackson Toby's reach rarely exceeds his grasp, but it's still taken me a week to post something about his piece on the Minding The Campus website, "The Revenge of the Unemployed Graduates". A taster:

"Western welfare states promote education as an escalator into the middle class, thereby kindling hopes for well-paid careers for everyone who gets ( Read more... )

Yes, it's the other trendy hysterical thing of the moment. Two high-profile cases for you, plucked from the headlines:

"German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned on Tuesday after admitting to copying part of a doctoral dissertation, stunning Angela Merkel and depriving her conservatives of their brightest star." More here: Read more... )

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You're such a slacker, 7th_tableau. Can't I even rely on you now to pimp this community out to the superstitious goons of the former Eastern Bloc countries? Do I have to do everything myself?

Tsk.

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... )

Just a quick shout out to promote Minding the Campus - Reforming Our Universities (http://www.mindingthecampus.com), a US-based website and discussion forum which, lately, has been positing the sort of questions one rather wishes people on this side of the Pond had the balls to ask - at ( Read more... )

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... )

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(Cheers to disinfo - http://www.disinfo.com/2010/07/how-did-the-world-cup-affect-south-africas-district-9/)