Emma Munday

Emma Munday is the founder of Cambridge YIMBY.

Articles

Education

Has an Oxbridge education become too easy?

Academic standards across Britain’s universities are in worrying decline. Even at Oxbridge, the highest reach of British academia, the foundations of rigour are crumbling. Classifications have inflated, and ‘special conditions’ have exploded: today, one in five students at the ancient universities sit exams under adjusted rules. If even Oxbridge no longer trusts its own exams […]

Ideas

America is shutting out its geniuses: let’s welcome them

America’s top universities have long been magnets for global talent. But now, they’re being dragged into a political storm – and Britain should seize the moment.  On May 5, US Education Secretary Linda McMahon barred Harvard from seeking federal research grants. Further threats followed: to over $1 billion in grant funding, and even to Harvard’s […]

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