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

The cult of mass university education saddles many students with unecessary debt, breeds dissatisfaction and does little to foster culture or enterprise

By expecting them to do everything, we forget their central purpose: education

British universities are ill-served by the Research Excellence Framework

The university is taking a stand against an organisation that has lost its way

Decolonisation is a new form of Western elitism that risks turning campuses into ideological bootcamps

Which group of non-teachers run the universities: Vice-chancellors or UCU leaders?

Overcrowded lectures are bad enough, but Zoom and masks are incompatible with learning

The Erasmus scheme is a political project not designed to work well academically

From Oxford to Edinburgh, Bristol to Liverpool, the story is the same: online interaction is here to stay