This interesting conversation/interview about the crisis of the universities in Europe , and particularly in the UK, was published in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto on 14 November 2010 in Italian. The Browne commission to investigate models for the future of Higher Education in the UK was set by Labour. P2P Education MORE >>

This ressonates with my personal experiences, the reason why I follow very little training and formal education, as I learn more from experience. We train and support an international group of organisations from countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and South America. Currently we are in the coaching phase. MORE >>

He seems to have had a horrendous childhood — strict education, loveless relationships, cold/distant parents, deep insecurities, and, oh yes, his family was afflicted with mental illness. Everyone around Wilhelm (all of Europe, in fact) was menaced by his uncertainty and lack of apparent direction. What could go wrong? MORE >>

The student movement, however, faces a political problem, most evident in the US and, to a lesser extent, in Europe. On the one side, it demands free university education, reviving the dream of publicly financed ‘mass scolarity’, ostensibly proposing to return to the model of the Keynesian era. The movement has two souls. MORE >>

Excerpts (specific material related to Europe has not been excerpted): “The crisis has laid bare the dogmatic and unfounded nature of the alleged “obvious facts” repeated ad nauseam by policy makers and their advisers. Investment rates remain historically low in Europe and the United States. The full pdf version is here. MORE >>