higher education
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Browncast Episode 83: An evolutionary anthropologist on the GRE, Bo Winegard and the nature of his discipline
BrownCast episode 83 with evolutionary anthropologist Cody Moser, who is against the GRE and sad about the firing of Bo Winegard, and who is vaguer about what his own discipline…
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I am Brown, so what?
A Cambridge Graduate Union sabbatical officer reviews six months in office, then describes how, in formal committees that are polite and nominally inclusive, being the only brown person among white…
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My letter to the Cambridge Union
The author reproduces his letter of complaint to the Cambridge Union after being turned away from a Pakistan Society event for not being a student, describing it as humiliating, as…
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Browncast Ep 34: Sohail Naqvi on Higher Education in Pakistan
On Browncast Episode 34, Sohail Naqvi, Rector of the University of Central Asia and former head of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission, shares his views on higher education in Pakistan and…
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Enough with the dog-whistling
A short complaint about persistent racism, with the author saying white British commentators overlook the rising Asian model minority because the two great universities remain overwhelmingly white, as the Ivy…
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Will the US Continue to Attract International Science Talent?
Asks whether the US will keep attracting international science talent, pointing to visa obstruction and a falling reputation under Trump and a perceived left-liberal drift in universities, while noting that…
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“Price of every tear will be paid”
The author welcomes the settlement for a student wrongly arrested in the United States, but warns middle-class Indian students about US harassment laws and zero-tolerance codes, and is uneasy about…
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Open doors (after 817 years)
As Nalanda University reopens after 817 years, the author hopes international funding and its distinguished board will give a good start for Bihar, but remains sceptical for lack of a…
