"Estimable" Sir Jonathan Jones KC
Associate Prof in Public Law, Durham Law School. Looks at how legislatures and govt works. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/benjamin-y-yong/
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Ben Yong
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Another chart just for fun. The employment rate for graduates is 88%. The employment rate for non-graduates is 68%. That's a huge employment gap. Do we think a total destruction of the university system is going to improve that?
An escalating scandal at KPMG raises further questions about the extraordinarily lucrative stream of government and university consulting work enjoyed by the accounting giants. trib.al/HniVDAZ
Lee Savage
so much fun
New @bmj.com piece by me & @martinmckee.bsky.social on the need for the UK's public health institutions to prepare to speak up in the event of a populist government set on undermining our population's health protections.
The tea leaves aren't that mysterious.
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
KPMG is facing international intervention as its chief executive resigns and legal loopholes limit ASIC’s access to documents and capacity to penalise the company.
A friend who works for the Bank of England is pitching to Lego a very cool model of the Bank--please consider supporting him here: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
"academic freedom is currently being weaponized by the enemies of academic freedom." VG
The UK needs a formal written constitution.
Ok, ok, but hear me out: the last decade has shown with absolute clarity and consistency that the unwritten constitution is dead. No more good chaps, no more quiet dignity, and fewer civil servants quietly smoothing things out in the background.
Prof Christina Pagel
Let's goooooooo 📕
Jim Dickinson has an excellent response to this new Policy Exchange report on universities
wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
Where is Darlington? Now, I know where Darlington is. I used to work there. But if I asked you ‘where is Darlington’ in the sense of which local authority, administrative geography or region then you might struggle. And this map shows why.
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In a true blend of work and play, I set myself the challenge over half-term of building the façade of the Bank of England out of Lego.Why? A fair question. I …
beta.ideas.lego.com
A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty questions, thirty types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?
For those interested, here are a couple of thoughts on academic freedom from a while ago
mathieucarpentier.substack.com/p/random-tho...
Student numbers at UK universities should be reduced 30 per cent, with cuts targeted at institutions whose graduates go on to earn the least and those with the highest dropout rates, says Policy Exchange report www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cut-uni... via @helenpacker.bsky.social
