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I continue to enjoy reading my hard copy of The Economist every week. Occasionally, I post examples of insightful graphics presented in arti...

Science provides an impressive path to certainty in some areas, particularly in physics. However, as scientists seek to describe increasingl...

Bribie Island, just north of Brisbane. The University of Queensland has just advertised several jobs that may be of interest to readers of t...

Universities and scientific research in the USA are facing a dire future. Understandably, some scientists are considering leaving the USA. I...

I continue to follow the situation in the USA concerning the future of science with concern. Here are some of the articles I found most info...

Elite universities in the USA have nurtured and enhanced my whole academic life. In 1983, I moved to the USA as an international student, co...

Adventures of a Bystander , by Peter Drucker , contains the following account. Drucker was a faculty member at Frankfurt University in 1933....

Equitable access to good education is a desirable goal. Yet it rarely happens and debate about how to achieve it can be diluted by focusing ...

I have only slowly come to realise the crisis facing US universities. A tipping point was the release this week in movie theatres of the doc...

Why does the USA have the best universities? It is not just that they have more money, as is claimed, for example  here. Hunter Rawlings  ...