Tag: Adam Ferguson

  • The PhD and beyond[:] the apprenticeship model of learning

    At the kind invitation of Mary Spiers-Williams, I gave a seminar to our doctoral students here at ANU College of Law, last Friday.  For some reason WordPress refuses to render the slideset at the usual tab above, so you’ll find them over at Slideshare. The title is a sort of pun: the colon is and isn’t…

  • Markets, modern universities, ancient values

    A while back I attended a two-day ASSA workshop  at the ANU College of Law, organized and convened by Professors Margaret Thornton and Glenn Withers.  I missed the first couple of sessions, but came in on Geoff Brennan’s paper on markets and Australian universities; and Fiona Jenkins’ very impressive paper on the impact of research evaluation exercises and the way they reproduce…