The pursuit of global mobility in a world divided up into nations invokes a fundamental dilemma. Free passage without harassment is a right we routinely expect to exercise whenever we travel abroad. Yet the right of people within a country to determine who enters their nation is enshrined in law. This unresolvable tension between sovereignty […] … learn more→

In Denmark the Ph.D. project is at the same time a job and an education towards being a researcher. The first part, the job, is covered by working for and with senior researchers and thus contribute to their research. The second part, the education, is covered via guidance and supervision from senior researchers, by doing […] … learn more→

Wendy Rawlings never sits with her back to the door anymore. And she prefers to teach in classrooms with more than one exit. Recently her students spotted through the window a young man dressed in black pacing back and forth outside the building. \”If he makes a move, I’m out of here,\” one said, and […] … learn more→

The PhD is a big undertaking. Your association with the university is going to last for some time. So it’s as well to know some basics at the start. The first thing to understand is that a university is a complex organisation. It has grown like Topsy. It isn’t rational; some bits of it will work better […] … learn more→

Comparing college freshmen today to those forty years ago, we would expect to see a very different group of students. On many measures, we do—but when it comes to income inequality, some things haven’t changed at all. Even as higher percentages of high school graduates from all walks of life are enrolling in college, the […] … learn more→

\”It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself–anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to […] … learn more→

The American professoriate once ranged from professionals who taught a course as an adjunct—a contribution to their professions, the compensation being almost nothing—to the regular (but generally poorly paid, often relying on family fortune to sustain them) faculty who generally assumed lifetime security at institutions whose operation their colleagues dominated. That changed over the decades starting […] … learn more→

The plan by climate alarmists to have other scientists imprisoned for their ‘global warming’ skepticism is backfiring horribly, and the chief alarmist is now facing a House investigation into what has been called “the largest science scandal in US history.” Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) Chairman of the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology, has […] … learn more→

International branch campuses are one of the biggest reputational and financial risks universities take. They are typically established distant from the home campus’ supervision, in an environment as well as a country that is foreign, and they rarely repatriate great financial or academic riches to their home campus. At least 31 international branch campuses have […] … learn more→