Author Archives: osullivan2014
My article on Self-Funded MPHIL and PHD degrees in Hong Kong
Is there liberal privilege in academia?
Nicholas Kristoff argues there is liberal privilege in academia with one report finding that only 2% of English professors in the US are supporters of the Republican Party.
NEW BOOK: ACADEMIC BARBARISM, UNIVERSITIES, and INEQUALITY
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists’ representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
Here is my new book on the topic. Chapters and more available on request:
Hong Kong Primary school students suffer too much stress due to exam culture of the society
One Hong Kong parent of a primary school students fears children are “losing themselves” in the Hong Kong education system
Hong KOng Primary School Students like FOXCONN workers
A retired Hong Kong school principal says primary school are at risk of becoming like Foxconn workers under supervision at all hours and working to complete exams ‘like machines’
Hong Kong parents protest the competitive primary school system
Hong Kong parents will protest against the ever more competitive primary school system in Hong Kong.
Academic Barbarism 