Sussex University: Where You Earn A New Kind of Bachelor’s Degree
In a cost-cutting move, the University of Sussex will largely scrap its History programme. European history will start with 1900. "The university said the cuts were part of a plan…
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Why Global Warming Won’t Go Away: Inertia
Rajendra Pachauri---chairman of the IPCC, railway engineer, and the man who penned these words, "Sanjay saw a shapely dark-skinned girl lying on Vinay's bed. He was overcome by a lust…
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Professions To Become Less Elitist In England
More from our Equality series: Just a sketch today; a longer article on this topic is (I hope to God) forthcoming. England is about to---it hurts to type this---Unleash Aspiration!…
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Real Education by Charles Murray
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray Recommendation: read (buy here). The word median is statistical: it is the point at which…
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The more educated there are, the less education there is: Part I
While surveying my number two son's final exam in meteorology (a class in which the answers are given out beforehand---in multiple choice format, of course), I recalled the old argument…
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Thou shalt not be more able
The funniest thing I have read in a long time comes from Robert Shibley, a member of "FIRE", the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (more details). The Virginia Tech…
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
Recommendation: read When Fussell wrote in 1982 (and published in 1983), he said that acknowledging the class divisions that exist in America exist was poor form and that doing so…
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Title IX in Science and Engineering
Your university's science and engineering programs might be "Titled nined" if Those That Care have their way. Title IX, or the "Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act", is…