“This issue of Encounters/recontres/Encuentros on Education reunites historians working in Departments of History and Sociology with historians and sociological historians working in Faculties of Education. History of Education brings with her particularities inherent...
The TASA Sociology of Education special interest group is inviting expressions of interest for presentations in a symposium for Social Sciences Week called ‘Levelling the Field - how do diverse students negotiate education systems between constraints and...
Dear friends, Here is a prime example in the outcome of 30 years' failure in higher education policies: “There are forums on contract cheating writers and I’ve seen them discuss that students have been caught for using AI and...
“We don’t hand out doctoral degrees here, but I thought it would be fun to give Max one,” Franklin said, noting that Vermont Public Radio covered the story. I, like anyone, will be misunderstood. So, let me be clear : I have no problem in Max the...
I have been making the moral warning, over and over, again and again. Is Any Decision-Maker Listening? From Kevin Roose, reporting from San Francisco, June 4, 2024, in "OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance," The Washington Post....
This morning's story, for me, is Patrick Jack's article in The Higher Education supplement, which examined the fallout in a conflict: Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology of the United Kingdom, with Kamna Patel, associate...
Dear friends, What has happened in the United States is a shift of the weight of the Block-Thinking Division between "Religious" and "Secular". Let me unpack that phrasing. Block-thinking is the cognition motivated by the collective agenda of an interest group,...
Review Essay: Matthew Hunter, Charles Taylor’s Sublime Shortcomings: The great philosopher’s book about poetry is provocative but disappointing, The Chronicle of Higher Education, MAY 22, 2024. Charles Taylor (2024). Cosmic...
“The [UK] creation of the Office for Students by the 2017 Higher Education and Research Act to ‘encourage competition between English higher education providers’ and to ‘promote value for money’ has been particularly instrumental in promoting...