Why I QUIT my university job --my most personal post yet

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This summer, after more than 20 years teaching and working in Britain’s universities, I decided to leave my full-time professorship.

While I will remain Honorary Professor and will soon announce a new academic appointment, this will not be in one of the established universities.

I will no longer teach students. I will no longer carry out my usual academic duties. I will no longer serve the established university bureaucracy.

This is the first September in two decades, in other words, that I will not be welcoming first-year students and returning students on campus.

Why?

Well, here’s my story —and it’s a personal one.

Exclusively for our paying subscribers, here’s an extended version of what I told the Sunday Times —why I’m joining a growing number of professors in the West who are walking away from the established universities to build something new.