Ian Pace

Ian Pace is a pianist and musicologist, and Professor of Music, Culture and Society and University Advisor – Interdisciplinarity at City, University of London but writes here in a personal capacity

Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling

Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship

Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start

Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more

Academia must undo the excesses of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion agenda

How ideology came to dominate the intellect — and rigidity subordinated scepticism

Proposed changes could exacerbate threats to the free pursuit of knowledge

Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector

Communist composers tried to create ideologically pure works for the workers — but without any great degree of success