Latest news on the most eagerly awaited league table A post just over a year ago noted the development of a new EU ranking method. Now University World News carries a piece about the European Union defying criticism of i…
More true crime on campus It’s business as usual for our ever-vigilant and attentive Security Team: 1445 Report of a suspicious package outside the DLRC Security attended. The package belonged to a Student who was playin…
Yes, it’s the first league table of the season The Complete University Guide and league table is now out. The details can be found on the Guide websitetogether with lots of other analysis (including by subject, region an…
An interesting idea? At the recent HEFCE Annual Conference the Universities Minister, David Willetts, delivered a wide-ranging speech which included a couple of interesting points on internationalisation: Since becoming …
On the issue of a “level playing field” for universities For the next, slightly briefer, piece in the Imperfect University series, I thought it might be interesting to pick on a topical issue which nevertheless has wider…
Misunderstandings and myths An interesting new pamphlet has just been published by HEPI. Misunderstanding Modern Higher Education: Eight “category mistakes” is a brief and snappy read and is available from the HEPI websi…
HESA Performance Indicators: Summary tables and charts HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency, has recently published its annual set of UK Higher Education Performance Indicators. See the HESA site for summary tabl…
It’s the University Challenge top 10 University Ranking Watch has published a distinctive table: the universities which have won the most University Challenge series. Leaving aside the detail that Oxford and Cambridge en…
Presentation from AUA Conference 2012 Thank you to all who attended this session on 3 April 2012 As promised, here is the presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/resbe/aua-league-tables-2012 As mentioned at the presentat…
The four 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, it seemed that another summary might come in useful. Four…
“Beyond ratings, beyond rankings, beyond opinions…” See what professors say about their teaching style, grading, and experience. Learn what you need to know before you invest your time, your money, and your energy into a…
Report of the Review of Higher Education Governance in Scotland As we have seen in the previous post in this series on regulation, governments, although they will often talk the language of freedom and autonomy, cannot h…
For the 500th Registrarism Post: The Very Best of True Crime on Campus Following the utterly objective poll to determine the topic for the landmark 500th Registrarism blog post I’ve used my own skill and judgement to sel…
Collaboration Theory and Practice There’s an exciting new HEFCE report out on the lessons learned from collaborations, alliances and mergers. It has also resulted in an exciting new acronym, CAM. In these austere times i…
The shape of things to come: global trends and emerging opportunities to 2022 I was privileged to chair this session at the British Council’s Going Global event on 15 March: Over the next five to ten years, which will be…
Students’ unions are important for many reasons I’ve got a piece in the Times Higher Education about some of the reasons I think students’ unions are important: Students’ unions have a long and distinctive history in UK …
Yes! Discounts galore – Groupon now does cheap PhDs In these austere times, it is reassuring to note that internet innovation is coming to the rescue of hard pressed students who can’t afford the time or the high fees as…
Does winning at football make male students less intelligent? Inside Higher Ed has a report on a piece of research which suggests that as football teams win, male students’ grades lose. This is American college football …
Helping young people to reach their true potential I was delighted to be at an excellent event to mark the launch of Nottingham Potential and the formal opening of the IntoUniversity Nottingham West centre. It’s a major …
Some new and rather surprising branch campus developments The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education’s new report on international branch campuses (IBCs), entitled ‘International Branch Campuses: Data and Development…