by CDBU Admin | Jan 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Professor GR Evans finds much that is self-justifying and sometimes misleading in a new book by former universities and science minister David Willetts David Willetts defends himself more than once about the purpose of this book. He dismisses the possibility that it...
by CDBU Admin | Nov 3, 2017 | Guest blog
Attempts to promote ‘alternative facts’ should be resisted, argues Professor James Ladyman It should surprise nobody that when Chris Heaton-Harris MP wrote to universities asking for details of academic staff discussing European affairs, he was immediately...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 27, 2017 | Guest blog
Opinion piece by G. R. Evans It is very welcome news that the Government has decided to include a definition of the Haldane Principle on the face of the Bill. Jo Johnson made a special point of this in his speech to Universities UK on 24 February. An accompanying...
by CDBU Admin | Jan 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Report on CDBU Annual Lecture 2017 by Dorothy Bishop Last night, Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, delivered a splendid lecture with the title “Uses and Abuses of Economics in the Debate on Universities”. It is not possible to do this...
by CDBU Admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Guest blog
Guest post by G.R. Evans The Higher Education and Research Bill is now on its way to the Committee stage. The Public Bills Committee has requested submissions, which should be emailed to scrutiny@parliament.uk. The Bill is not a speedy read. In an earlier blogpost I...
