Category Archives: Education

The Advantages of Maturity

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Athene Donald

A final post on the Oxford meeting, before I go on holiday for the next week (no laptop, no emails and no posts).  This topic is provoked by some comments made to me by a mature PhD student attending the … Continue reading →

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Lawson, Willetts and Equality

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Athene Donald

Dearie me, it really is the silly season. Dominic Lawson, in today’s Independent, writes a perfectly sane piece about the fact that if more girls go to university than in the past, then necessarily there are fewer places for boys … Continue reading →

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