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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Higher Education in the Marketplace
Sometime towards the end of the fifth century BC the young Athenian Xenophon encountered a man in a narrow side street. The man blocked his way and asked where every kind of food was sold. Once he had received a reply, he asked another … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Universities
Tagged Ancient Athens, Independent Thinking, Lectures, Socrates, Tutorials, University Market, University Teaching
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A Racism Row We Didn’t Need
Sometime yesterday evening, Diane Abbott, in a twitter conversation with her constituent Bin Adewunmi, expressed a rather insensitive view: Once the tweet was spotted, there was no halting the row. Diane Abbott in thoughtless hyperbole shocker. As if she had never said something … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, Immigration, Life in the UK, Politics
Tagged Diane Abbott, Racism, Stephen Lawrence
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