On Dundee, education and managerialism

Craig Murray gave his inaugural speech as rector of Dundee University on Wednesday, though you’ll not find anything of it on the University’s site. There’s Alan Langland’s introductory speech as VC and Principal, but nary a word from Murray.

The Scotsman has a report on the event which might indicate why, but for more context you would do best to read the actually speech, reproduced here below the cut. Hat tip to PJC, from whence I copied it (typos and all), who manages to stay on my read list by just balancing hyperbole and paranoia with a sufficiency of useful and interesting content and linkage.

( Craig Murray's speech )

[baaa…] booklist

From peake, These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. I’ve also underlined a few that I haven’t read, but that are on my current to-read list.

The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.

( the list )

Seems odd that so many people are apparently unable to finish Neil Gaiman’s books - I’ll grant they they may not be to everyone’s taste, but I would have thought that anyone who made the attempt would be into fantasy of some sort, and could hardly fail to be captivated by his writing.