Category: Education
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Arday of Reckoning
Thoughts and prayers for insufferable lefties flatfooted by the Arday fallout. Hapless hacks split ranks from the exculpatory looney party line and critiqued Professor Vanilli’s plagiarism and fantasist larging as decidedy ropey for an elite don. Bravo? Nope. Schoolboy error. They’ve now been dragged kicking and screaming to kick out video mea culpas to avert…
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Arday’s Plight
Forget the alleged plagiarism and the fantasist guff floating about Jason Arday. You’d be hard pressed to find an academic who hasn’t recycled someone else’s work and at some stage bigged up their CV. Academia is cut-throat, with dons getting canned if they haven’t churned out fifty papers a year. And this geezer ain’t playing.…
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Mealy-Mouthed
Congratulations to Marcus Rashford on his MBE for his work to alleviate child hunger in a first world country. In these times, we might very well celebrate altruistic star leverage of personal influence. Most of them are out sharking social media and spouting fatuous twaddle in order to scoop up a sackful of Twitter or…
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The Golden Turd
I remember a time when the favourite educational pastime was slagging off Media Studies. That has hardly aged well. Most people seem to be neither able to accurately identify fake news nor to understand the relationships between discourse and power. And no, reciting Homer at tiresome dinner parties for the entertainment of twittering hoes, who…
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Lying Low
The UK Education Secretary Gavin Williamson foreshadowed the latest Government debacle with a warning on the danger that school students might be over-promoted into jobs that are beyond their competence. I can only admire his steadfast ability to deadpan that message. That’s weapons-grade irony, right there. This is a man who probably hides a spare…
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First-Degree Burns
‘I am pleased to announce that I have graduated from High Street University with a first-class honours degree in [insert any lamentable toss here]…… Such announcements are popping up all over the shop on social media. LinkedIn degree-result fanfaronade appears to be today’s must-have accessory for the me-me-me gang. ‘I’m so grateful to my lecturers…
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