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