Still going through the boxes of my books reclaimed from our abolished reading room. Today’s treasures: volume 2 of Thomas Bowdler’s Family Shakespeare (i.e the Victorian censored versions in which Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after etc) and an 1891 book listing which books to read.

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" I Teach at a Business School: It’s Time to Shut Them Down" quickly became one of the most widely shared pieces on management education in years. poetsandquants.com/2026/10/19/e...

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You can go to today’s universities and see what excellence actually looks like or you can be ignorant and lazy and sneer at ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees at post-92 universities instead. Good to see Victoria Derbyshire choosing the intelligent option and reporting on it.

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If it hadn't been abolished in favour of 12 weeks on generic skills, my Round the Wrekin module would have covered West Midlands humour and comedy this week - accents, insider/outsider humour, Lenny Henry, Goodness Gracious Me, Jasper Carrot, Joe Lycett, The Grimleys, 'considerably richer than yow'

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Time to get a grip, before a genuinely world-leading higher education slips from our grasp.

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