A rather dubious league table The Telegraph has a story based on reported incidences of plagiarism which it describes as an: investigation into cheating at universities, with thousands of students caught plagiarising, tr…
A rather dubious league table The Telegraph has a story based on reported incidences of plagiarism which it describes as an: investigation into cheating at universities, with thousands of students caught plagiarising, tr…
And a threat to UK security, it seems BBC News carries the story which arises from the first report of the new Homeland Security Committee: Campus extremism is a “serious problem” that threatens UK security, a group of M…
And a threat to UK security, it seems BBC News carries the story which arises from the first report of the new Homeland Security Committee: Campus extremism is a “serious problem” that threatens UK security, a group of M…
More True Crime from the University of Nottingham A few of these show the unfortunate effects of excessive alcohol consumption and the resulting challenges for our ever-patient Security team: 2302 Security were called to…
U-multirank – The European alternative An update on U-Multirank: “a multi-dimensional global university ranking”. This is a European Commission-funded feasibility study into developing an alternative approach to rankings…
So, are international student numbers set to double? According to Times Higher Education: English universities are relying on “unbelievable” plans to increase international student numbers by up to 100 per cent in four y…
So, are international student numbers set to double? According to Times Higher Education: English universities are relying on “unbelievable” plans to increase international student numbers by up to 100 per cent in four y…
THE Leadership and Management Awards 2011 Shortlist Announced Times Higher Education has published the shortlist for the 2011 THELMAs Having sifted through almost 200 entries from 95 different institutions, we can now un…
Or, in praise of memoranda A special post to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Association of University Administrators (AUA), currently enjoying their annual conference here at the University of Nottinghsm. A very goo…
Presentation from AUA Conference 2011 Thank you to all who attended this session on 19 April 2011 As promised, here is the presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/resbe/pride-and-prejudices-league-tables-aua-2011
First league table of the season The Complete University Guide and league table is now out. The details can be found on the Guide website together with lots of other stuff (actually there really is a surprising amount of…
More Regulatory Woes In University Governance: Questions for a New Era, Professor Malcolm Gillies looks at a whole set of issues around university governance. A previous post noted his suggestion about a greater involvem…
New Latin American league tables emerging The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a league table developments in a number of Latin American nations: The growing influence of university rankings has reached Latin Ame…
Professors With Personal Tweets Get High Credibility Marks A piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on an experiment at a US college to investigate students’ views of their teachers’ use of Twitter. The artic…
True crime on campus §8 A selection of some more interesting security reports: 2210 Report that eggs had been thrown at a Shuttle Bus whilst it was passing Cripps Hill. Security attended, the area was checked, no one was…
A new report on governance: “University governance – questions for a new era” This is an interesting pamphlet from HEPI written by Professor Malcolm Gillies who has clearly been on the receiving end of a fair bit of gove…
Why aren’t there any good campus novels these days? Inspired by an article in the Guardian by David Lodge about Pnin by Nabokov I wrote a brief piece some five years ago on “The End of the Campus Novel?“. With the possib…
A new ranking for Islamic universities University World News has a story about another international ranking, this time for Islamic universities: The Iran-based Islamic World Science Citation Center has launched a new cl…
“In an Era of Campus Cutbacks, Performing-Arts Centers Keep Going Up” A hugely encouraging story in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the fact that institutions are still building arts centres, depsite the financia…