20 over 500
Youth isn’t everything Last year it was Times Higher Education but this year it is the turn of QS to produce a ranking of newer universities, presumably on the basis that somehow they suffer in the rankings for not havin…
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Do we need more ways to measure HE?
Clearly we do… There seems to be a new review of performance indicators for higher education underway. This is, it appears, a “fundamental review” of how higher education is measured in the UK. The review has been commis…
On the size of branch campuses
Biggest isn’t always best but it does tell you something Looking at the latest University of Nottingham student statistics and the most recently published HESA data it struck me that Nottingham is now the UK’s largest ca…
Guardian League Table 2014: One or two changes
New Guardian League Table for 2014 Top 20 of the full list (available here) is as follows (last year’s position in brackets): 1 (1) Cambridge 2 (2) Oxford 3 (3) LSE 4 (4) St Andrews 5 (6) UCL 6 (7) Durham 7 (9) Bath 8 (1…
Progress Claimed for Duke Kunshan University
Duke still sounds upbeat about its China campus. The Chronicle’s Duke section has a report on what sounds like some modest progress with the development of the new Duke Kunshan University in China: Considerable progress …
A Different Kind of Ranking
The new U21 systems ranking Following on from last year’s first iteration, U21 has now published its 2013 Rankings report, which is intended to give an overview and ranking of higher education systems across the world. T…
Inspiring Leadership
A Decade of Leadership from the Leadership Foundation A new HEPI report is out. Inspiring Leadership – Personal Reflections on Leadership in Higher Education is written by Ewart Wooldridge who recently stood down as Chie…
True Crime on Campus §29: Bins and Quidditch
More unlikely but true crime on campus There can be some testing incidents on campus sometimes. However, our excellent Security staff are usually up for any kind of challenge – no matter how strange: 2020 Report of a dam…
Monster study tips
From Monsters U, where else? I’ve blogged before about the eagerly anticipated HE movie of the year, Monsters U. Greatly amused therefore by the invitation from a PR to our Comms team to post promotional posters for Mons…
UK HE in China
QAA Review of Transnational Education in China Back in 2012 the QAA surveyed all UK higher education institutions in order to find out details of their TNE activity in China. The QAA review includes detailed reports on 1…
Crime Data in the USA
University fined for misreporting crime data The Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece about the University of Texas at Arlington being fined for improperly classifying and reporting a number of crimes which took pla…
Eight minutes to choose a degree course
A report on the use made of Unistats HEFCE has published an evaluation of the Unistats website after its first period of operation. It suggests that the huge demands made of institutions in providing the necessary data h…
Is London the new UAE?
More branch campuses opening in the city But most of them belong to UK universities, not overseas institutions. According to last year’s OBHE report there are six international branch campuses in London (four from US uni…
Another dumb ranking
The universities which will make you a millionaire! Mail Online publishes this insightful piece on the “graduate rich list” which shows you “where to study to make your millions”: A new graduate ‘rich list’ has revealed …
Exam stress? Head for the puppy room
It’s furry therapy apparently. Last year we heard that Dalhousie University in Canada had provided a puppy room to help students deal with exam stress. Now it seems that another university has joined in and, according to…
A not entirely new university ranking
A rather citation heavy ranking from URAP (NB not UKIP) Apologies for the lateness of this but for some reason I failed to notice this league table which was published last autumn. The University Ranking by Academic Perf…
The Imperfect University: The End of Internationalisation?
Is it the end for internationalization? No. It’s not a bubble. It’s not bursting. A recent Chronicle blog suggested that, in common with some other higher education activities, internationalization was a bubble and about…
2014 Complete University Guide League Table
It’s spring and it’s time for the first league table of the season The Complete University Guide and league table for 2014 is now out. The details can be found on the Guide website together with lots of other analysis (i…
Communicating science. Though improv.
A surprising source of help with communicating science A great story in The Chronicle of Higher Education on an accolade for Alan Alda for his contribution to helping scientists communicate In New York City this week, Mr…
Quidditch World Cup 2013 update
Pottering in the sun The Huffington Post carries a top sports story on the recent Quidditch World Cup held in Florida: the majority of teams competing at this level have official uniforms names paying homage to the book …