philosophy
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If you want to observe what happens when a modern European state decides to drop the pretense of the “knowledge economy” and run higher education like a 19th-century meatpacking plant, look at the Netherlands. Over the past year, Dutch campuses have been engulfed in open revolt. Tens of thousands of students and faculty poured onto…
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If you wanted to script the ultimate inspirational blockbuster for modern higher education, you could not have written a more cinematic pitch than the rise of Jason Arday. In 2023, the University of Cambridge announced with massive global fanfare that it had appointed Arday as its Professor of the Sociology of Education. At just 37…