Higher Education
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education