Universities
Affirmative action was hurting black students
Harvard may have a slightly more difficult time poaching black students from Boston College, Miami University of Ohio, or other…
The real phone-hacking scandal
The convicted phone-hacker assembling complaints against the tabloids
Why Britain is falling behind in the global universities race
Our country still excels when it comes to higher education. Britain has seven of the world’s top 50 universities. In…
British universities are beyond redemption
There’s no doubt that the government has the best of intentions when it comes to clearing up the Augean stables…
Trump’s second act: he can still win, in spite of everything
Why I think Trump will be the next US President
Letters: The case for legalising cannabis
Paying the price Sir: Lionel Shriver’s piece about university standards rang true to me (‘University is supposed to be hard’,…
Why are our universities still cosy with China?
It sounds like something from a spy novel: scientists linked to the Chinese military complex working at UK universities on…
Shame should not be heritable
Vice-chancellor Stephen Toope claims it was ‘inevitable’ that a university ‘as long-established as Cambridge’ would have links to slavery. Now…
Why has Oxford killed off a much-loved Catholic college?
Why has Oxford killed off a much-loved Catholic college?
Who's to blame for our censorious students?
Without freedom of speech, you do not have a university. More than any other value, it is freedom of speech…
Will my kitchen be designated a ‘safe space’?
As the father of four children who will be entering higher education in the next few years, I’m worried that…
The culture wars have crept into Oxbridge admissions
The negative discrimination of Oxbridge admissions
America has betrayed its young
Two articles last weekend made me feel sorry for American young people. We in the anti-woke brigade can be awfully…
Durham’s maths problem
More exciting news arrives from Britain’s dimmest university, Durham, which is embarking on a programme to ‘decolonise’ mathematics. About time.…
Why don't I come with a trigger warning?
Last week brought the news that some universities have attached more ‘trigger warnings’ to certain books, concerned that students may…
The mind virus killing academia
We lost a giant last month with E.O. Wilson’s passing. A man who stood on Darwin’s shoulders, Wilson had that…
Some (tentative) reasons to be cheerful in 2022
Someone sent me a job advert recently for a Junior Research Fellowship at Queen’s College, Oxford. It states: ‘The Queen’s…
My meeting with the Durham University mob
My abiding memory of this fairly appalling year is of the face of the young student at Durham University who…
Why liberals must stand with Kathleen Stock
I know what it feels like to be bullied and vilified for expressing views with which, eventually, many right-minded people…
How the culture wars are killing Western classical music
Ian Pace on musicology’s culture wars
The rise and rise of hate hoaxing
Last week, some racist graffiti was found at Parkway North and Parkway Central schools in the Midwest American state of…
America’s campus culture wars come for St Andrews
The University of St Andrews has been keen on American imports for some time. Americans make up 16 per cent…
When will exams get back to normal?
It wouldn’t be credible to say that this year’s A-Levels grades are comparable with 2019’s: almost 45 per cent of entries…
A culture of fear has taken over at Edinburgh university
It is undeniable that the University of Edinburgh is the jewel in the crown of Scotland’s higher education system. Among…
The problem with decolonising Shakespeare
Scarcely a day passes without a major British institution announcing it is ‘decolonising’ itself. Most recently it was the turn…
