Being measured and judged alongside friends and colleagues was too much Goldsmiths’ reduction of people to expendable costs corrodes the necessary conditions for learning. I’m leaving, says Les Back By Les Back 2 August
University campuses and buildings must remain public places Restricting access to university property is a sorry symptom of commercialisation that is making students poorer, laments Les Back By Les Back 4 October
Is tweeting the modern equivalent of Comte staring into his mirror while he wrote? Twitter may be a medium for academic vanity, but it also serves some very useful scholarly purposes, argues Les Back By Les Back 29 April