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Bad beer, gigs and Gitanes: students have been denied memories they deserve | Jonathan Wolff
This year’s graduates may never even know what they have missed – and it’s not the lectures
Jonathan Wolff
27, Feb, 2021 @8:00 AM
The government pretended UK universities were immune to the virus. The fallout is exhausting | Jonathan Wolff
Staff are drained and deeply anxious about the risks to them and their students, and there is no end in sight
Jonathan Wolff
03, Nov, 2020 @7:30 AM
As universities scramble to protect their own interests, inequalities will magnify | Jonathan Wolff
In the post-Covid world, wealthy families will pick off the best university degrees – unless enormous effort is made
Jonathan Wolff
01, Sep, 2020 @7:00 AM
Rhodes' statue is going. Now universities must ask: what about John Locke, Elizabeth I and others? | Jonathan Wolff
UK academia has to accept that its traditions and ideas have made it a hostile environment to many
Jonathan Wolff
07, Jul, 2020 @6:00 AM
Covid-19 has made universities' financial forecasts redundant. Good luck to us all | Jonathan Wolff
Will freshers opt to defer for a year, and can universities let them? No one knows the answers to even the biggest questions
Jonathan Wolff
05, May, 2020 @6:00 AM
Why Toby Young and other robust white men are using free speech to whip universities | Jonathan Wolff
Many academics see their role as holding government to account. That’s as it should be
Jonathan Wolff
03, Mar, 2020 @6:45 AM
In the 2020s universities need to step up as a central pillar of civil society | Jonathan Wolff
We need better student mental health care, fairer staff contracts – and the strength to resist the chill from on high
Jonathan Wolff
07, Jan, 2020 @6:45 AM
What hypocrisy, I think guiltily, as I jet off to academic conferences far and wide | Jonathan Wolff
We must apply the three Rs to plane travel: replace if possible, reduce to the essential, and refine to make it worthwhile
Jonathan Wolff
29, Oct, 2019 @5:45 AM
I arranged my office furniture so colleagues could not stop to talk | Jonathan Wolff
Once academic work was collaborative and enjoyable – now for many it’s a series of lonely billable hours
Jonathan Wolff
10, Sep, 2019 @5:45 AM
The Augar report on higher education has a sting in its tail | Jonathan Wolff
The proposals are significantly regressive, increasing total payments made by lower earners, such as teachers and nurses
Jonathan Wolff
04, Jun, 2019 @6:00 AM
Universities are in a building frenzy, but who is actually impressed? | Jonathan Wolff
Students will remember the low ceilings that stop them seeing the PowerPoint screen, not the brushed-aluminium finish
Jonathan Wolff
09, Apr, 2019 @5:45 AM
What is the point of higher education if it doesn’t make people happy? | Jonathan Wolff
Forcing universities to compete with each other is a bad idea. What we need is a Teaching Happiness Framework
Jonathan Wolff
12, Feb, 2019 @6:45 AM
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