In the upper echelons of Jordanian society, one found a different kind of Iraqi exile — businessmen with their fortunes apparently intact, writers, artists, intellectuals, university professors, doctors and dentists quietly rebuilding their lives, former Army officers scrabbling for a living, haut-bourgeois families who had fled when the monarchy fell in Iraq, in 1958.
Gillian Evans, emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history, University of Cambridge There will be no more block grant for teaching, and the block grant has always provided the infrastructure.
At least six Muslim intellectuals and university professors have been killed or kidnapped in the past year in Pakistan, each death met with momentary notice in the media, promises of inquiries by the government and then a frightened quiet.
We are told in the story "Rabbit", for example, that poetry-writing Leafy Barkwell "represents an England that urban intellectuals and university lecturers assert to be dead, merely because they wish that it were so, and do not realise that it is not".
Yet, like Soviet-era samizdats, his books were devoured secretly by Berber students and intellectuals in universities and in the Kabylie region.
Book reviewing is in eclipse, done in by factors we have heard about before: the decline of the influential literary journal, the retreat of public intellectuals into universities, the Internet.
Gillian Evans, emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history, Cambridge University "The 'salary expectation' part of tagging degrees leads to a question about students' motivation in going to university: the assumption is that no one will put in the time unless there is a financial reward.
One of Europe's primary intellectual resources, its university system, is in terrible shape.
I left school expecting to be surrounded by a hubbub of intellectual debate at university, preferably while standing barefoot on a police car.
For a man who was basically an academic intellectual, a Cambridge University don, Keynes had a colorful life, partly because he lived with and among artists and writers, and partly because his work was intimately connected with the three major events of his time and place: the First World War, the Great Depression, and the Second World War.
If, at present, the calibre of applicants from the private school sector exceeds that of state school children, this surely reflects not that universities are recruiting according to class-based criteria but that the state education system is failing to produce the numbers of equally high-calibre candidates capable of intellectual pursuit at university level.
