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• Why I said yes to Professor Self | Will Self
  The prospect of working at a university with people who pursue knowledge for its intrinsic value is truly liberatingHere are two contrasting experiences. I read a short story I have written to a group of people, and when I've finished I invite questions, stressing that these can be as broad or specific as they wish. The first questioner wants to know ho […]
• Universities cut number of degree courses by 27%
  Research shows there are almost 20,000 fewer full-time undergraduate courses available than in 2006The number of degree courses on offer at British universities has been slashed by more than a quarter in the past six years, new research suggests.It reveals that there are almost 20,000 fewer full-time undergraduate courses available now than there were in 200 […]
• Will Self to become a professor of contemporary thought
  Maverick writer will be teaching students at Brunel University's school of the arts and its school of the social sciencesSince graduating from Oxford in the early 1980s, Will Self's career has been nothing if not diverse. He has swept streets, drawn cartoons and made cold calls; he has written as a maverick political journalist, a psycho-geographer […]
• What exactly is the 'John Lewis model'?
  After councils and care units, now schools are being encouraged to imitate the department store's stakeholder structureOnce upon a time, we knew three things about John Lewis. One: it's a very nice, very middle-class department store. Two: it owns Waitrose, that very nice, very middle-class supermarket. Three: it is, or claims to be, never knowingl […]
• A good day at George Washington's olde English family home
  Sunderland is best-known in business circles for its Japanese links via Nissan, but it's also renewing its own version of the special relationshipNorthern England's links with the United States, which include the gift to the world of Wrigley's chewing gum, have been mightily emphasised today in Sunderland.The city on the Wear has its own speci […]