Around the time of the discovery of the Higgs Boson, Peter Higgs, its namesake admitted that the academics of his generation would not be productive enough to get a job in a modern University as junior academics. The modern academic is not the tweed jacket wearing, pipe smoking thinker of…

Examinations provide a level playing field. That is why they exist. But if the game is flawed and the dice is biased, what good is the gradient of the table? In the 7th century, the Sui dynasty realised that it was better to select officials on the basis of merit…