Our Vice-Chancellor

Are disciplines becoming less important? I think they are. Universities are gradually changing how they operate as disciplines become less central to the construction of knowledge.

It is always interesting—and difficult—to consider global intellectual trends. They are few and can be nebulous, retailed by intellectuals from right or left who are sure that they have found a lasting solution to whatever they think ails the world. But one trend I can see and feel. It is based on the notion of compromise.