Davies on Sex, Science and Profit

If you weren’t aware, our own director moonlights as a book critic in his spare time. And according to the Guardian, Davies is something of a pugilist when it comes to his reviews. His latest target, Terence Kealey of the University of Buckingham, gets socked for lacking self-discipline in his latest book, Sex, Science and Profits.

Writing in the Times Higher Education supplement, Davies criticizes Kealey for his provocative title, saying that “in fact, there is rather more about science and profit than about the other thing.” Kealey’s book, which Davies dismisses as a ‘polemic’, is about the value of private investment in education, particularly in scientific research. The poor Vice Chancellor even receives an unfortunate literary insult, being likened to Don Quixote tilting at windmills.

You’d think that the director could lay off, although maybe he is still smarting from being shown up by other university leaders online – Kealey, on the other hand, doesn’t even register. Pick on someone your own size, Howard!