Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII

Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake

A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism

Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?

Should the Tories be so proud to have been raising numbers?

We must sweep aside today’s pervasive fearfulness. Instead we should feel free to offend — and not take offence when others treat us equally robustly

An Admissions Don at a major British university lays bare the quota-driven process of student selection and imagines what honest acceptance and rejection letters may look like

The dream of the university is being killed by greed, dogma and bureaucracy

The British model of a residential “university experience” saddles students with unnecessary debt and severs their links with their communities

At its most radical, the push for decolonising the curriculum rests on a series of false assumptions that we need to repudiate