Anthony Finkelstein

Song of the Watchman ... when the duty falls to me ... here near my home profserious.substack.com/p/song-of-watc… ... by @profserious

The Bureaucratic Escalator … and how it operates ... by @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/the-bureaucr… #AcademicTwitter

Try this great track by composed by my nephew Sam and performed by the brilliant MOIO open.spotify.com/album/2YY0t01l…

Mindfulness for Professors ... a contemplation ... by @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/mindfulness-… #AcademicTwitter

Just a reminder of this week's article... turns out to be politically timely!

@Dominic2306 thought this might amuse you! open.substack.com/pub/profseriou…

On Your Radar … why the Defence Industrial Strategy matters beyond defence ... how the UK intends to link science, industry and national security capability ... @proserious attempts to spare you some effort with this summary analysis profserious.substack.com/p/on-your-radar

Lessons from an Innovative Organisation ... what Arizona State University (@ASU) can teach us about institutional innovation … by @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/lessons-from… #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy #AcademicTwitter #Innovation

Lessons from an Innovative Organisation ... what Arizona State University (@ASU) can teach us about institutional innovation … by @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/lessons-from… #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy #AcademicTwitter #Innovation

Reading China's 15th 5-Year Plan … (a technology strategy disguised as an economic plan) ... on science, industry, and power … A short guide to what the new plan tells us about China’s technological direction … by @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/reading-chin…

Is Your University Financially Sustainable? ... take this simple test ... by @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/is-your-univ… #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy #AcademicTwitter

@whitherapathy Thanks so much. This is an interesting topic! I have sidled up to it on various occasions ... touches a wide range of issues: the needs of the economy, funding, what sort of institutions we need, the structure of the academic workforce, career patterns, delivery of teaching etc.

@profserious Beautifully written, and correct in every aspect. If you're open to suggestions for future blogs, what are your thoughts on the question of whether UK universities simply do too much research or, rather, too many people in UK universities do research as well as teaching?

A Kerfuffle … UK research funding (and in defence of Sir Ian Chapman) ... by @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/a-kerfuffle

France, Germany, Russia and South Africa ...

Looking back over the US National Security Strategy. Struck by the below paragraph....

Science & Technology in National Security Strategy ... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies ... by @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/science-and-… #NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity

a really exciting and important job as Director of ResearchPlus jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU125/dir…

@vulpine2020 @Adrian_Hilton @UniOfBuckingham To be clear, I agree with you in large part. I favour much greater liberalisation and deregulation. I am an admirer of what Buckingham has achieved, at we should acknowledge is a very restricted scale. I do not think it is the form of university governance that is the problem!

@profserious @Adrian_Hilton @UniOfBuckingham They’re not really privatised in any meaningful sense because of the fee regime in particular. Buckingham shows what some freedom can do but we should go much further (the other problems you cite flow from high levels of state interference in the market)

I agree with this (though haven't always, on the grounds of undergrad maturity). There is much to commend the two-year Bachelor's degree, which the @UniOfBuckingham pioneered (with a third-year Masters option), and it delivers admirably without any structural ‘squeezing’.

@vulpine2020 @Adrian_Hilton @UniOfBuckingham In effect universities are 'privatised', they are independent charities established by royal charter. The challenge is the regulatory framework, a market fixated on 'status', the controlled fee regime, and conservative university governance.

@Adrian_Hilton @UniOfBuckingham Just shows an advantage of being a privatised university: flexibility, competition, innovation. If we privatised all universities we would see much more of this sort of thing