Unistats – now with added KIS – has launched The all new Unistats site has launched: Unistats is the official site that allows you to search for and compare data and information on university and college courses from acr…
Graduations: A bit like the Olympics but then some Graduation is one of the most significant events in the university calendar. It is a slightly bizarre and rather ritualistic event. Everyone (well, nearly everyone) dres…
Or Snog, marry, avoid? More universities are working more closely together In one of its latest circulars (2012-21) HEFCE has published some new guidance on collaborations, alliances and mergers. It’s interesting stuff a…
Berkeley offers an extensive service for new academics Support for newly recruited academic staff tends to be fairly limited in UK universities. And even less is offered to other groups of staff. Although you might get a…
This time it’s an alumni ranking The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on this new player in the US college rankings: If you had it to do all over again, would you choose to attend your alma mater? Do you think the e…
Which? University adds to the university information mix Last week saw the launch of the new Which? university comparison website. Trailed in the White Paper n June 2011 it offers yet more information to prospective stud…
More true crime on campus: Our Security staff discover the strangest things happening on campus. Fortunately, they are generally unflappable and respond pragmatically to every challenge. Even when presented with the ulti…
Latest QS world league table is out A preview of the 2012/13 QS World University Rankings from John O’Leary, makes clear the impact that the league tables have. Not just on institutions but also on governments: The ranki…
Increasing marketing spend in universities – real or hype? Inside Higher Ed features a report on a recent conference on marketing in higher education which featured some bold predictions about the money UK universities w…
Some new Branch Campuses on the way The University of Nottingham admitted its first students in China back in 2004, establishing the first Sino-Foreign University in China and then opening its campus, pictured above, in …
Helpful support for students or an expensive way to interfere? Inside Higher Ed reports on a new app which updates parents on their student’s progress. But is it a helpful addition to student support or just a license fo…
Honour codes and cheating Two fascinating stories recently about students cheating and responses to it. All universities face the issue of how to educate students on the importance of honesty and integrity in academic st…
Or just an excuse for playing more Angry Birds? The Chronicle of Higher Education has an entertaining piece about what Angry Birds “Can Teach Us About Universal Design for Instruction”. In part, I think that Angry Birds …
Vocabulary tightening for student athletes using Twitter It seems that, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, two universities are to bar athletes from using hundreds of words on Twitter. Monitoring social medi…
Because you can never have too many rankings It’s Newsweek and The Daily Beast rankings. College Rankings from Newsweek and The Daily Beast give you everything you want to know about silly categories of colleges in the U…
Table of Tables Back in June Times Higher Education published its annual table of tables. Essentially it’s a bit of a cheat in that it simply uses the results of the three domestic league tables to derive a score (the Su…
Easy come, easy go for fake degrees Previous posts have noted the problems with fake degrees and there have been some high profile politicians unaccountably caught up with fake degree scandals in recent times. My eye was…
The three most recent UK University League Tables Given that searches for UK university league tables are among the most frequent reasons for visitors to the blog, particularly during Clearing, it seemed that another sum…
2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings Keep calm. Top 20 follows: 1 Harvard University 2 Stanford University 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 4 University of California, Berkeley 5 Un…
A new approach to careers advice The Chronicle has a short piece on a new approach to delivering careers advice. Essentially it is a contemporary take on the traditional inkblot test which has been updated to a set of im…