Open for business
Small countries are open for higher education business A taster for a session to be delivered at next week’s International Leadership Conference at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus: this piece in Times Higher…
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Europe as “one higher education space”
The President of Maastricht University argues in a piece for the Guardian Higher Education Network for greater European integration in higher education: Not before time, the House of Lords in the UK has announced an inqu…
“Topsy-turvy ranking” in social science teaching
Research which challenges some league table views of teaching quality Times Higher Education has a piece on a detailed study of teaching of Sociology at a range of instututions which has some interesting results: Teachin…
Back to the future? Reverting to single-sex accommodation
Is this really the solution? Fascinating piece on Inside Higher Ed on a reversion to single sex accommodation at Catholic University: “Life is Co-Ed” has become the unofficial rallying call of the Catholic University stu…
A bit of a lift
Or, beyond car parking charges (Continuing the left/elevator theme of the previous post.) Until very recently the University of Nottingham was one of only a tiny number of universities in the UK which did not charge for …
True Crime on Campus §16: A series of unfortunate events
More true crime on campus: where stuff happens Unfortunate things can happen on campus. Fortunately, our unflappable Security staff are more than capable of responding to all kinds of events: 1215 Report that a pedal cyc…
Are US universities retreating from international ventures?
It seems there is a “new caution” for US universities overseas Seattle P-I has a piece on what looks like a slowdown in the international activities of US universities: High-profile and expensive failures of Middle East …
More on iPads in the classroom
Another report on experimentation with iPads Have posted before on the use of iPads on campus and for teaching and learning. An article in the Chronicle reports on some recent experiments involving iPad use in the classr…
A checkup call from the top
Valuable student support measure or a bit of a gesture? In addition to spending what must be a huge amount over the past few months on advertising in the trade press, Boston University has undertaken another big investme…
Naming internationalisation “will not revive it”
Is internationalisation in need of revival? Hans de Wit, who is a professor of internationalisation of higher education, has published a really interesting piece on University World News on why “naming internationalisati…
Tilburg University Economics Ranking
Another University Ranking You Didn’t Know You Needed Bit of a one for the anoraks this, and certainly one of which I was, until very recently, unaware. It is, as the title suggests, a ranking of Economics departments, n…
Advice for prospective students – quantity and quality
High quality advice and guidance is key for delivering access An interesting piece by Tessa Stone in the Times Higher Education on the importance of clear, impartial and high quality advice for potential university stude…
Nottingham Advantage
Impact Campaign: Nottingham Advantage Another update on the Impact Campaign which has launched this week at the University of Nottingham. This theme, Nottingham Advantage, is one which I think is particularly important. …
Impact : Academic Excellence
The Impact Campaign at the University of Nottingham – Delivering Academic Excellence A previous post reported on the launch of the Impact Campaign. Now we’re into a bit more of the detail about why the campaign is import…
Launch of the Impact Campaign at the University of Nottingham
The Impact Campaign launches today at the University A rather different focus here on the blog for the next few days. The University of Nottingham is launching a significant and important campaign today: About the campai…
The Three World University League Tables of 2011/12
World University League Tables 2011/12 An earlier post provided links to all of the recently published UK league tables. Now, following the publication of the THE world university rankings, we can put the three world lea…
Engineers in charge?
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece on an interesting development at Georgia Tech. The argument here is that we should deploy the skills of the engineer in running our universities in order to properly to addre…
How to create a world-class university
Is there really a recipe for creating a world-class university? University World News carries a piece on what looks like a fascinating new publication from the World Bank on the making of world class universities. The re…
The Branch Campus Bubble?
Do branch campuses have a future? A thoughtful piece by Philip Altbach this for Inside Higher Ed on the sustainability or otherwise of branch campuses. An earlier post on this topic covered similar ground with both piece…
True Crime on Campus §15: Freshen up!
For the new arrivals The start of the new session and the arrival of thousands of eager freshers brings with it additional challenges for our ever-responsive and capable Security Team. All of the following are freshly re…