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Really not the Best Blogs of 2025

It’s time for a classic homage to all those end of year reviews you get from people who write or publish loads of heavyweight stuff about higher ed week in week out. Yes, unfortunately, here you have a collection of blogs that are definitely not the best of 2025.

December 24, 2025
1–2 minutes
best of 2025, Diversions, Review

I published quite a few blogs in 2025, some of them serious and many of them really frivolous. But it tends to be the latter which I find more entertaining. For no good reason then other than it being the kind of thing that people do at this time of year, here is a selection of the blogs I most enjoyed writing this year.

The Higher Education Shipping Forecast
Universities and Theme Parks: A Vital New Ranking
Even More Peculiar Higher Ed
More US universities which should be in the UK

All New I Spy Universities
The Great Big University Shield Animal Battle

University Top Trumps – The All New 2025 Series
Going underground – The 2025 University Tunnels Top 10
Invincible Musical Higher Ed – unis named after bands and vice versa
Levitation and Demons: Student Protest in 1970
A Diverting UK University Picture Quiz

The Best Higher Ed Books and Albums of 2025

Don’t worry, there will be more throwaway nonsense in 2026.

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