1. End of an era for Academia.edu http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/11/has-elsevier-signaled-a-new-era-for-academia-edu-and-other-professional-networks/ 1a. Elsevier Asks Academic.edu to Remove Articles in Copyright: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/17/elsevier-versus-open-access
2. A Family Business from Hong Kong, which has one of the highest gini coefficients in the developed world, gives the largest donation ever received to Harvard University: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1587769/harvards-health-school-get-record-us350m-gift-hong-kong-philanthropists
3. Some Top Colleges in the US Increase Diversity in Access in Regard to Economic Background of Students: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/upshot/top-colleges-that-enroll-rich-middle-class-and-poor.html?src=me&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Most%20Emailed&pgtype=article&abt=0002&abg=1
4. The Most Economically Diverse Colleges in the US: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/09/upshot/09up-college-access-index.html?action=click&contentCollection=The%20Upshot&module=MostEmailed&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article&abt=0002&abg=1
5. Huge Donation to AMerican Universities by Chinese Rags to Riches couple who seek to support underprivileged Chinese students in their bid to study in the US: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/07/16/chinese-property-power-couple-launches-100-million-education-fund-starting-with-harvard/?mg=blogs-wsj&url=http%253A%252F%252Fblogs.wsj.com%252Fchinarealtime%252F2014%252F07%252F16%252Fchinese-property-power-couple-launches-100-million-education-fund-starting-with-harvard
6. A maximum wage: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/sam-pizzigati-puts-the-case-for-fairer-wealth-distribution-1.1935616
7. German Universities cut tuition fees: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4213550.ece
8. Nobel Judge berates Western creative writing courses http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/07/creative-writing-killing-western-literature-nobel-judge-horace-engdahl
9. FORBES: Unintentional Economic Discrimination in US education: http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/05/02/poor-students-are-the-real-victims-of-college-discrimination/3/
10. NEW YORK TIMES: Elite College Admission Rates drop as low as 5%: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/us/led-by-stanfords-5-top-colleges-acceptance-rates-hit-new-lows.html?_r=0
11. FORBES: The Lies of the College Admissions Procedure in the US: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevecohen/2012/09/29/the-three-biggest-lies-in-college-admission/3/
12: HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL: The Invisible Low-Income, High-Achieving US College Admissions Students: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/publications/impact-newsletter/archives/spring-2014/invisible-high-achievers-reaching-high-scoring-poor-students
13: HARVARD.EDU: OPPORTUNITY BEYOND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k74757&pageid=icb.page414102
14: NEW REPUBLIC: College Admissions in the US are Crazy: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114848/college-admissions-criteria-american-vs-british BERFROIS: POEM ON POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION AS A SYMBOL OF PRIVILEGE http://www.berfrois.com/2014/11/postgraduate-education-one-cultures-prominent-expressions-upper-class-privilege/
15: China imposes greater controls on University Education: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1689427/tighter-controls-chinese-universities-will-stifle-innovation-scholars
16: Academia is not a meritocracy but depends on “prestige”: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/12/academia-is-not-a-meritocracy/ 17: Systematic Inequality in University Hiring Networks: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005
18. Regina Ip – hotly tipped to be HK’s next Chief Executive – on why Chinese language levels are falling in HK secondary schools: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1711816/hong-kongs-education-syllabus-should-not-be-enabling
19. Apple ends “bonded labour”: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2883512/apple-ends-system-of-recruitment-fees-that-tied-labor-to-contractors.html
20. Chinese authorities increase censorship in schools: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1717015/great-firewall-rises-darkness-descends
21. Noam Chomsky on the destruction of the American University: http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/chomsky-how-americas-great-university-system-getting
22. Toward a theory of American academia: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/toward-a-theory-of-american-academia.html
23. Individual distinctiveness and social conformity: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/3/140437
24. Academia’s 1 percent and the difficulty of getting an academic job without having a PhD from an elite university: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/929-academia-s-1-percent
25. ‘Free thinking’ is important for the future of Hong Kong: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1734648/inventor-professor-ron-hui-says-free-thinking-vital-hong-kongs-future
26. Academics writing essays for money: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/students-get-academics-to-write-their-essays-for-50-an-hour-1.2181603
27. Hong Kong doesn’t spend enough on University: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1771995/more-rd-spending-smart-investment-hong-kong
28. Only 1 out of every 200 graduates with a Science PhD will end up a professor: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/apr/21/phd-cant-find-academic-job-university
29. Recent developments in Gene Experiments in Research in Chinese Universities reveals core differences in relation to ethics between Chinese and ‘western’ research: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1776520/controversy-over-chinas-dna-experiment-underscores-east-west
30. The problem of the Infantalizing University: http://chronicle.com/article/Infantilized-by-Academe/229765?cid=megamenu
31. Why University Expansion increases inequality: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/why-university-expansion-increases-income-inequality/30246
32. Peter Wood: University Expansion has produced over 17,000,000 million US employees in the workforce who are over-qualified and do not need their BA degree for their job: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/too-much-for-too-little/30220
33. The New Elite Class of the Uber College Graduate: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/universities-and-income-equality-new-evidence-and-conjectures/30136
34. Paying Star Academics Big Salaries: http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Inequalitythe/145843/
35. Universities Magnify Social Inequality: http://chronicle.com/article/Magnifying-Social-Inequality/132627/
36. 5-year study of how income inequality affects the future prospects of students: http://chronicle.com/article/Social-LifeSocial/132631/
37: Richard Wolin: Universities as Bastions of Class Privilege bastions of class privilege and social exclusion
38. University and the Great Sorting http://chronicle.com/article/The-Great-Sorting/132635/ 39. The College Premium has contributed to Inequality: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Great-Sorting/132635/
40. We need more Need-Blind admissions to ensure top universities are not selecting on the basis of who can pay full fees: http://chronicle.com/article/Growing-Elitism/132641/
41. Growing demand for education had allowed universities to become more selective. Community colleges mustincrease places without becoming more selective: http://chronicle.com/article/EquityCommunity-Colleges/132643/
42: Corporations act as gatekeepers: http://chronicle.com/article/Renewing-the-Commitment/132645/
43. The push to make research in Hong Kong neglect the local dimension: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1792322/look-beyond-hong-kong-research-university-law
44. What’s the point of being a professor?: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/whats-the-point-of-a-professor.html?_r=1
45. Academia is the Titanic: On Teaching, Adjuncts, Exams and the Credibility of Graduate Programmes: http://www.salon.com/2015/05/12/academia_is_the_titanic_mark_bauerlein_on_teaching_in_the_morally_bankrupt_grind_of_the_new_american_university/
46. Students protest against a classist education system in Chile where there are no free universities and where middle-class students obtain the majority of places in the best universities with the poor students having to settle for low quality institutions: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-22459229
47. The reasons for the student protests in Chile that started back in 2011: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-14487555
48. Student Protests in Chile in 2011 – the background; http://clas.berkeley.edu/research/chile-student-leaders-reinvent-protest
49: From the New Yorker: Nell Zink and her rise from poverty, through a philosophy major, to best-selling author status: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/outside-in
50. Hong Kong Professor advises students to look for jobs outside Hong Kong: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1802602/lingnan-university-chief-says-young-people-must
51. UK Boarding Schools come to Asia and charge huge fees; http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1804161/uk-based-boarding-schools-cash-increasing-demand
52. OECD: Gap between Rich and Poor is growing; http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/1803100/unions-unhappy-hong-kong-civil-servants-line-pay-rise-412pc
53: OECD: ON INEQUALITY http://www.oecd.org/social/inequality.htm
54: Bar Keeps Rising at Elite Schools in China: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/money-wealth/article/1807365/chinese-elite-private-school-straight-arent-always-enough
55. NYT: Outrageous Salaries at US Universities: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/opinion/frank-bruni-platinum-pay-in-ivory-towers.html
56: SPYING AT UNIVERSITIES: THE US ACCUSES CHINESE PROFESSORS AT TIANJIN OF SPYING: http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/tianjin-university-defends-chinese-scientists-indicted-by-u-s/
57. Temple University Professor accused of spying by US: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1807870/temple-university-professor-charged-offering-sensitive-data-china
58. To understand China you must understand the Communist Party: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1809033/know-china-one-must-understand-communist-party
59. Hong Kong School charges 1m HKD so students can avoid second interview: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1811034/elite-school-stanley-gets-flak-over-hk1m-priority
60: Investigation into Benny Tai gathers momentum: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1810025/hku-head-defends-education-bureaus-calls
61. The state of English in Hong Kong; http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1811311/hong-kongs-sad-state-english-how-our-readers-see-it
62: Problems with care for the disabled in Hong Kong; http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1813154/hong-kong-woman-90-fears-future-son-downs-amid-11
63: Corbyn: Austerity a cover for growing inequality http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-33210014
64: Hong Kong private schools raise fees again: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1825446/international-and-private-schools-hong-kong-seek
65: The Growth of Individualization in Society noted by academics: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/opinion/why-dont-the-poor-rise-up.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
66. UK Government Threatens to (and does) cut Grants for Students: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/nov/22/poorest-students-face-350m-cuts
67: A Scientific Ethical Divide between China and the West: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/science/a-scientific-ethical-divide-between-china-and-west.html?_r=0 6
8. Five Myths About MOOCS: https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/five-myths-about-moocs/2010480.article
69. The Online MOOC Revolution drifts off course: http://www.npr.org/2013/12/31/258420151/the-online-education-revolution-drifts-off-course
70. The MYTH of MOOCs: https://ccaeducause.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/derek-whitehead.pdf
71. Only 13,000 university places available for students in Hong Kong as vocational places also cut this year: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1839351/hong-kongs-vocational-institutes-post-secondary
72. 3 in 10 Hong Kong Secondary Students suffering from Anxiety: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1837334/3-10-hong-kong-secondary-students-likely-be
73. Underprivileged children in Hong Kong 10 years on: http://www.scmp.com/treasures
74: Hong Students must look elsewhere besides tests and exams – High suicide rates among young people: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1840178/hong-kong-students-take-note-you-dont-need-straight-succeed
75. Third Culture Kids and the Expat Bubble in Hong Kong:
76. The Effects of Hoarding a Surplus in Hong Kong:
Academic Barbarism 