NEW BLOG POST: "The cowardice of the powerful: educational leadership in DEI"
Every year my institution measures faculty productivity by requiring us to submit a report of our annual activities. This year I noticed that two sections had silently disappeared.
https://jamesendreshowell.com/2026-01-03-educational-leadership-in-dei.html
The elite universities faced with rising costs, falling graduate salaries & fragile market position, will be calling for 'weaker' universities to be closed, wound-up or stopped from awarding degrees.
The head of KCL may not be putting it in those terms yet, but the elite universities clearly need to stem the flow of graduates from lower ranked institutions that are diluting the value of their graduates' degrees.
The Post-92s have a fight on their hands!
#universities
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jan/03/uk-university-degree-no-longer-passport-to-social-mobility-says-kings-vice-chancellor
@ChrisMayLA6
I have no opinion about which universities to close. But it's trivially true that the worldwide labour market only demands a certain number of uni graduates per year, and very different numbers from different subjects.
If the UK has been opening new universities mainly to keep the kids off the streets, improve unemployment figures and create jobs in rural areas, then of course it must have led to a graduate glut on the labour market.
