Death to the BA… Let’s try a new Arts degree.
“… we don’t have a meritocracy, rather we suffer from a mediocracy.”
22Apr 
31Mar
All stick and no carrot?
.”..it might be clear what the government does not want young people to do or study, but what is offered as a viable alternative?”
12Feb
Research (funding) and the university: learning from the past for the present-day
“research culture is most successful when it is conducted in a hands-off manner, free of government determinations and influence”…
27Nov
An Abundance Agenda manifesto for Aotearoa
“I would much rather that we live in a society of mutual abundance and optimism than our current experience of pessimism and scarcity” – Mike Grimshaw
1Nov
Losing- but finding – my sporting religion
“I would still go to the pub of rugby, or more often the televised off-licence, but what was on offer was increasingly the sporting equivalent of Speights.” – Mike Grimshaw
16Oct
Books do furnish a mind…
“For it is in our new dark age that Free Speech – and its opposition – is too often used as a substitute for and dismissal of free thought.” – Michael Grimshaw
27Sep
These New Zealanders – today: 72 years of doom-loop repetition?
“are we in a doom-loop of repetition of national and cultural failing? And if so, what could we do?” – Michael GrImshaw
26Aug
She’ll be right…? Is New Zealand stuck in the churn of complacency?
“Our challenge, then as now, is to facilitate the organic growth of a New Zealand culture, not the synthetic, deliberate choosing and mixing of elements” – Mike Grimshaw
1Aug
Heretics – but no Communists – in the University??!!
Free speech and tertiary education in NZ Given the recent debates, disputes, and discussions concerning free speech in New Zealand universities, it’s timely to go back and examine a forgotten episode from which we might learn how – and how not – to proceed today. In a time where issues of free speech are somehow […]
18Jul
A philosopher, a clergyman and a trade union leader walk into a meeting… (or, the question of civil liberties – and free speech)
“Why is there the need for a Free Speech Union if there is a Council for Civil Liberties?” – Mike Grimshaw