Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions

Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution

There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation

On the sad decline of the British university

Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP

Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed

Students should be taught to do more than agree

Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling

Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination

Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities