Tag: Universities

Too many students regret life-long debts as a consequence of often worthless degrees at institutions that pay their senior managers up to £700,000 a year. But there is a better way, says Mark Ellse.

There has never been a class of people who are freer to express their opinions than Left-leaning academics in 2023. So why do they think the Government is trying to censor them, asks Dr David McGrogan.

Over 100 academics from top U.K. universities have formed the London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom, with the goal of protecting free speech, intellectual diversity and open discourse on university campuses.

Doug Stokes, a professor of international relations at Exeter, has summarised the thesis of his new book, Against Decolonisation, for the Daily Sceptic: it's based on nonsense and is sapping our national self-confidence.

China is engaged in a "whole of state" assault on the U.K. and the Government’s approach has been "completely inadequate", according to a report by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee.

Is affirmative action on the brink? American Supreme Court’s landmark ruling could potentially end a 60-year campaign.

Arif Ahmed, the Government's new 'free speech tsar', says he'll defend all views and is not intending to take sides in the culture war or promote the views of the Government.

According to Basqueros, the Daily Sceptic's pseudonymous higher education columnist, scrapping visas for the dependants of foreign postgraduates is a bloody good idea.

The objections to including a new statutory tort in the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill by the Labour shadow universities minister were comically feeble, says Busqueros in the Daily Sceptic.

"I have more degrees than you" should never win debates. This American professor found out the hard way. Wielding credentialism to deny sex differences in human skeletons has drawn laughter and criticism.