“Alas alas alas, this blog’s been neglected this last while. Such are the demands on me at the moment (and the time taken up with Twitter!). Anyhow, for the extra hour, the holiday weekend, the Halloween sound-effects that prohibit any work requiring concentration, and the current catch-up with http://9thlevel.ie, a post is forthcoming …” (more)
[Pennybridged’s Weblog …, 31 October]
“The New Zealand-born philosopher Bede Rundle, who has died aged 74, taught for 40 years at Trinity College, Oxford, and made substantial contributions to the philosophy of language, mind and action, to metaphysics and to philosophical theology …” (more)
[Edward Kanterian, Guardian, 31 October]
“Half a century ago Kingsley Amis, aided and abetted by the Times, moaned that ‘more means worse’. A decade later, the notorious Black Papers were published, peddling the same reactionary views. But then the right abandoned its campaign against the expansion of higher education. Now the beast is back …” (more)
[Peter Scott, Guardian, 31 October]
“A British academic with close links to Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has left the London School of Economics before a report on the university’s relationship with Libya is published …” (more)
[Jeevan Vasagar, Guardian, 31 October]
“The author of an Irish Independent article that the Union of Students’ in Ireland have used to bolster their ‘Stop Fees’ campaign has said a quoted figure of €5,000 for third level fees was purely ‘hypothetical’ …” (more)
[Donie O'Sullivan, College Tribune, 31 October]
“Once again I revisit the question broached by Science is Vital in our recent report Careering Out of Control? A Crisis in UK Science Careers. Last week I participated in a round table discussion about this very issue co-hosted by Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society, and David Willetts, the Minister of State for Universities and Science …” (more)
[Jennifer Rohn, Mind the Gap, 31 October]
“The Irish Federation of University Teachers has expressed serious concern about a warning of possible prosecution issued to an academic at NUI Maynooth by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission …” (more)
[Lorna Siggins, Irish Times, 31 October]
“Trinity College Dublin has secured the go-ahead to turn a former bank off College Green in Dublin city centre into a restaurant. The university has been granted planning permission for the redevelopment of protected buildings at Foster Place and Anglesea Street after a ‘protracted’ planning process which saw the university abandon plans for a super-pub at the site …” (more)
[Michelle Devane, Sunday Business Post, 30 October]
“The process by which hundreds of thousands of teenagers apply to UK universities favours the rich, the organisation that co-ordinates degree applications has admitted. In a review of university admissions published on Monday, Ucas acknowledges that the current system gives an unfair advantage to pupils at private schools …” (more)
[Jessica Shepherd, Guardian, 30 October]
