Pet Soundings
Bringing Pets to College US News and World Report carries a story on the pet care option at university: For many students, leaving the comforts of home and moving in to college for the first time can be a difficult trans…
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The Times: 2012 University League Table
2012 University Rankings published by The Times The new Times league table is out and there are some interesting changes. Some shuffling in the middle of the table and a couple of high climbers and a drop out. Last year’…
More global goings on
Differing global view points In a recent post I offered some comments on views about internationalisation’s mid-life crisis. Reports of two other recent conferences in Canada offer different perspectives on the globalisa…
Nottingham wins a THELMA
THE Leadership and Management Awards 2011: Outstanding Communications and Marketing Team The full details of the results in each category can be found on the THE site. An earlier post reported the nominations Nottingham …
Universities are “well-managed” shock
Remarkable speech at THE Leadership and Management Awards 2011 The THELMAs ceremony, on 16 June, was remarkable for a number of reasons. Not least the fact that Julian Clary was hosting. But perhaps the most surprising t…
True Crime on Campus §11
More true crime on campus: traffic trouble Some further reports of the incidents to which our excellent Security staff have to respond. This particular set are all of a kind (apart from the last one): 15:45 Security were…
Preparing for a zombie attack: the tyranny of FOI
So should every public authority be preparing for this? Entertaining story on BBC News about Leicester City Council where a worried member of the public has forced the Council to admit it is unprepared for a zombie invas…
Swings and roundabouts?
UK students rush to Maastricht. European students run to the UK So what is the story here? Is UK (or English) higher education in the post-Browne era so terrible that a mass exodus to the Netherlands is underway? The Ind…
Trouble with names
Or the importance of having a proper naming policy So could it happen here? Fascinating story this about Tsinghua University naming a teaching building after a donor. Except the donor is a clothes brand: China’s prestigi…
Internationalisation’s mid-life crisis?
Or which way now for internationalisation? In a recent opinion piece in THE, I argued that genuine internationalisation, including building campuses overseas, was challenging but achievable and required a sincere long te…
New university ‘to rival Oxbridge’
Exciting news – it’s fantasy uni time The Telegraph and Sunday Times both carry this most interesting of stories about the establishment of the ‘New College of the Humanities’. The Guardian also has the story but include…
Not such a good example?
“Don’t Look to the Ivy League” is an interesting article in the London Review of Books by Howard Hotson. Essentially, his argument is that a wider reading of the league tables suggest that the UK generally punches above …
True crime on campus §10
More true crime on campus More extracts from campus security reports. Some innocent, some silly and some just a bit odd. Our outstanding Security staff have to deal with just about everything. 1445 Report of a smell of b…
Cover your eyes – another frightening course emerges from the crypt
Seriously scary Have posted before about some rather leftfield programmes, including a zombie course at the University of Baltimore and, more recently, a course covering Lady Gaga. Also previously looked here at the laun…
Auditing University Rankings
Holding league tables to account? The Chronicle reports that there are to be some new rules to govern university league tables. The proposals were announced recently in Paris at the Unesco Global Forum, “Rankings and Acc…
Sing Sing – fundraising for Mamelodi
Sing Sing Selina Mwenifumbo and Shaunna Francis, two pupils at Nottingham University Samworth Academy, have written, recorded and released this song to raise money for the Mamelodi Trust in South Africa. It’s available f…
Stanford Adds Alumni Interviews
One of those big differences between US and UK universities Inside Higher Ed carries a piece on alumni interviews: Alumni interviews have for decades been part of the admissions process at elite private colleges. Their r…
Latest Guardian University League Table for 2012
New Guardian League Table for 2012 Top 20 of the full list (available here) is as follows (last year’s position in brackets): 1 (2) Cambridge 2 (1) Oxford 3 (4) St Andrews 4 (8) London School of Economics 5 (5) UCL 6 (3)…
iPhones and iPads on Campus
The search for killer apps goes on Follow up to an earlier post on Abilene Christian University providing iPhones to all students and a follow up on implementation a year later. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports …
The difficulties of leading via Twitter
A Cautionary Tale: “A College Unfriends Its Social-Networking President” The Chronicle of Higher Education carries a fascinating story about a new breed of institutional leader seeking to engage through twitter. Unfortun…