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The one about the Purpose of Higher Education

At the broadest level, institutions do cool stuff for the benefit of society, and in return they get money to do cool stuff and suffer minimal outside interference in so doing. Alex Usher Introduction In the midst of the current financial crisis gripping UK higher education, the question of purpose looms large. What are universities truly for?…

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Becoming a teacher, and stop stealing dreams

For education… always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. W.E.B. Du Bois Podcast Gooblar, D. The Missing Course. Teaching in Higher Ed podcast In this episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Bonnie Stachowiak speaks to David Gooblar about how teachers are almost never…

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