learning

Plato would have been appalled by Newcastle University

20 June 2026 9:00 am

Newcastle University is advertising for a Director of Academic Advising, which will offer guidance that is ‘inclusive, compassionate, and genuinely…

The pedant’s progress through history

22 November 2025 9:00 am

The pompous know-it-all despised by classical philosophers became a stock comic character of 16th-century theatre – and finally a bore to be pitied