Jesuit education in America has a distinguished history that is deeply rooted in faith and intellectual rigor. Today, according to the Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities, the 28 American Jesuit institutions educate their students within the Ignatian heritage of Jesuit education “in a way that seeks God in all things, promotes discernment, and engages the world through a careful analysis of context, in dialogue with experience, evaluated through reflection, for the sake of action, and with openness, always, to evaluation.” More...
27 janvier 2018
Jesuit Higher Learning in the 21st Century
You don’t need to know Plato and Aristotle to be a humanist
Academic philosophers call on Amber Rudd to reconsider decision to refuse Pakistani’s request for asylum on the grounds that he did not mention Plato and Aristotle when questioned about humanism. More...
Too many graduates are mismatched to their jobs. What's going wrong?
Students often aren’t aware of their own skills and experience, or what different jobs require. They need more meaningful careers advice. More...
The university of the future will be interdisciplinary
Structures and labels are important for bringing order to confusion, providing a sense of direction and purpose. But they can lose their value as the world changes around them. In a world where interdisciplinary research is of growing importance, dividing universities by academic departments creates barriers not benefits. More...
Have you been affected by sexual harassment at university?
We’d like to hear from students and staff who have concerns about sexual harassment committed by both students and staff at UK universities. Share your experiences. More...
I didn’t tell anyone I was raped at university. I’m not alone
When I was a student, I was pressured into having sex. Like many others, when it happened I believed the entire experience was my fault and wasn’t serious enough to share. I said no to him multiple times, but I still felt responsible. I was left feeling dirty, violated and ashamed. More...
Office for Students is in its infancy
Andrew Adonis’s criticisms of the Office for Students – first on Twitter and then in the Guardian (Office for Students? It’s the Office Against Students and it is not going to last, 23 January) – are wide of the mark. We are three weeks old, and begin operations in earnest in April. We are building an organisation that will be a transformative and independent regulator of English higher education. More...
Former social mobility chief condemns government record
The government’s record on social mobility has been condemned by its former key adviser on the issue, who accused ministers of lacking both the ability and willingness to deliver on what he described as “the crunch issue for our country”. More...
Office for Students? It’s the Office Against Students and it is not going to last
The ill-conceived regulator is already drinking in the last chance saloon because it is failing to address the issues students need it to. More...
