Category Archives: bafflement

Planetary

Posted on 18 January 2012 by Richard Wintle

It’s amazing what you can learn sometimes. Junior #2, now in grade four, is mired in the dreaded “gears and pulleys” science unit. Dreaded, I say, because I’m still scarred from Junior #1′s project, now two years past. In that … Continue reading →

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Bafflement and effort

Posted on 20 August 2011 by Erika Cule

From Robbins to McKinsey – The Dismantling of the Universities by Professor Stefan Collini (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge) is a thoughtful, articulate and damming critique of the Browne report (pdf) and subsequent Higher Education White Paper (pdf). © … Continue reading →

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