4 days ago by Tanya

People, there’s good news – and there’s less good news. The good news is that there are signs that business secretary Peter Mandelson is finally grasping the nettle and realising students deserve a whole lot more respect now that tuition fees have made them ‘paying customers’. The bad news is that h ...

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31 days ago by Ciaran Laval

I've just been having a giggle over at the official forums after reading a post from someone who informed us that she ended up stuck outside her neighbours bedroom window for a week and that her neighbour " Wasn't best pleased about it". Fortunately support eventually came to the rescue of her (and ...

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73 days ago by The Blissful Ignoramus

I Don’t Know why we use elitist words like “enlightened”. I do know, I am simply agreeing to becalm.. who I was designed to be. I am enjoying serenity today.

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73 days ago by Kid Recreation

It doesn't matter whether ivory towers everywhere are right or not in requiring the mostly nonsense that is the key to their doors, a role modelled in the rich countries ivy-covered buildings. Suffice it to say that they do, and that teachers are left to pick up the mess, and deliver it. And everyon ...

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98 days ago by Geoff

WhineFest by a woman suing her career college for not living up to its promises in helping her to find a job after graduation … or so says Jerry Coyne from the picturesque window of his ivory tower, backed up by one of his commenters: [I]t is nothing but anti-intellectualism to view your education a ...

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139 days ago by goosecommerce

Or, Do PhDs roll Twenties? Wow. This L.A. Times story — a version of this much better reported year-old piece by Scott Jaschik at InsideHigherEd — describes a colossally bad idea on which ETS ( Educational Testing Service) is trying to sell graduate admissions deans. Put very briefly: ETS has come u ...

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143 days ago by [Cerebrl]

Snipped from Forbes.com. “It’s nonsense that the private insurance companies need to be protected,” he says. “Why? Because they’ve done such a good job?” quips Dr. Scheiner, President Obama’s former physician. President Obama seems to be on a mission to water down nearly all of the policies that he ...

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151 days ago by goosecommerce

How Crafty? So Crafty Remember when we were talking about how crafty historians are?* Well, other, smarter people have been having the same great idea. Let me fill you in… Michèle Lamont, author of How Professors Think, has been guest-blogging over at Crooked Timber, and in between trolling the phil ...

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159 days ago by Mark Knowles

Ebony Ivory Investors Group, 500 international property buyers and investors, have signed a petition requesting Dubai’s Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) and the Dubai Ruler’s Court to investigate the Jumeirah Lakes Towers Ebony Ivory Towers project, involving Al Fajer Properties and its marke ...

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160 days ago by goosecommerce

Or, Driving Changes Not so long ago*, Kieran Healy over at OrgTheory did some interesting riffing on an idea in Jon Elster’s new book about Alexis de Tocqueville. He put together a list of different innovations in social theory, grouping them by how they characterize the relationships between differ ...

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