#Universities

The Independent Whig

TheWhig

1/ Why the problem of today’s woke cancel culture starts in Kindergarten, using @jonhaidt’s book The Righteous Mind to illustrate. 2/ Haidt waits until 3/4 of the way through his

Michael Otsuka

MikeOtsuka

Excellent linked piece about re-opening universities, co-authored by a professor of global health at Duke. This is one of my favourate paragraphs. 1/https://time.com/5867395/will-universities-be-next-covid-19-tinderboxes I've asked this

Matthew T. Page

MatthewTPage

Hot off the presses: my new @CarnegieEndow report “West African Elites’ Spending on UK Schools and Universities: A Closer Look”. Are some politicians using unexplained wealth to school their

Elizabeth Stokoe 💙💙💙

LizStokoe

The gov't’s "New National Restrictions from 5 November" tell universities to “consider moving to increased levels of online learning where possible” & students to “not move back and forward between

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

Thread on 'global health degrees:Ever wondered what a "Master's degree in Global Health" might cost you?In our @GlobalHealthBMJ paper, by @svadzianita @av_Nathaly & @seyeabimbola, we identified 41 degree programs &

Dr Chris Newton

drchrisnewton

I've had a quick look at this, and this is definitely welcome. We need free speech protections in universities. However, there might be a way in which the left-wing unis

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

Obama-endorsed French President Emmanuel Macron has joined numerous French intellectuals & journalists in warning that "out-of-control woke leftism of US campuses and its attendant cancel culture" poses a grave threat

Hasan Saeed

HasanSaeed6

You will colonize my country, plunder it and use its resources to fuel your own growth. Completely destroy it and then a hundred years down the line, you will offer

Alok Goyal

alokgoyal1971

(1/n) Listened to a fabulous podcast on higher ed by @pmarca https://castbox.fm/vb/306137871 - questions many of the assumptions that we have made and challenges it faces. (2/n) One of the

Josh Milthorpe

JoshMilthorpe

Either through stupidity or spite, the Liberal/National Government's inaction during #COVID-19 will devastate universities. Higher ed drives innovation & growth and will underpin our economic recovery in a changing post-COVID

Dr. Jennifer Berdahl

JBerdahl

I enjoyed Micheal Sandel's @ubcSPPGA #LIND21 talk this evening on points related to his book, The Tyranny of Merit. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374289980. A threat on some points that stood out: The ideal

Prof Mark Radford 💙 PhD RN

MRadford_HEECN

Whilst we hoped we would not need to take this action again once again our 3rd years have been asked to be part of the response. We will work with partners

Larry Culhane

larryculhane

Schools in @LBHF and beyond have been heroic throughout 2020 - continuing to reassure and inspire our young people in the most difficult of circumstances. Today, they were yet again

hillary #StudentsDeserveBetter

hillarygyebi

The Essay Mill (Prohibition) BillThread (w/ Plain Text) A few weeks ago, myself and the leads from the Academic Integrity Collective met with the Former Universities Minister, Chris Skidmore

BVDDY

BvddyCorleone

This is a prime example of how government intervention, even with the best of intentions, can turn a good into a bad.(Chart via @calvinfroedge) The rise in the cost of

Peter Burns

PeterBurnsESPN

Couple things I wanted to unpack on what seemed like a rough day of headlines in CFB1) The idea that ALL college sports shuts it down by next week is

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