Category Archives: George Orwell

Some Animals are More Equal than Others

Posted on 5 November 2016 by Athene Donald

This week I attended the Royal Society’s Diversity Day. As everyone remarked, the audience was indeed remarkably diverse. Signing of the talks for the hard-of-hearing was available and the standard white male was in (relatively) short supply both on the … 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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