by CDBU Admin | Oct 25, 2018 | Book review, Guest blog, Uncategorized, Widening access
Patrick Ainley welcomes a book that rethinks the purpose of a university – and offers some radical suggestions of his own Everyone knows who universities are for. As another book in the Bristol University/ Policy Press shorts series concludes: ‘The English education...
by CDBU Admin | Aug 21, 2016 | Guest blog, Higher Education and Research Act
No. 7 in a series of guest posts by G. R. Evans ‘The world of education is not just boxed up into different sections; it is linear’, protested Neil Carmichael in the Second Reading debate. Several speakers drew attention to the move of the ‘teaching’ role of higher...
by CDBU Admin | Dec 23, 2014 | Opinion, Part-time students, Tuition fees
Opinion piece by Dorothy Bishop My mother came to England after the war, having met my father when working as a translator for the British Forces in allied-occupied Germany. She’d come from an academic family in Gottingen, and it’s hard to imagine her state of mind in...
