“Pressuring” students on NSS According to the Telegraph some institutions have been trying to persuade students to give them decent scores in the NSS: Eight British universities were reported to the higher education fund…
QS defends its ranking methodology Following the split from THE, and recent critique by that publication of its approach, QS has been setting out a robust defence of its methodology: Following the end in 2009 of a six-ye…
‘Tracking the higher education revolution’ A really good article by Philip Altbach, Liz Reisberg and Laura Rumbley in Change Magazine. A global revolution has been taking place in higher education during the past half-ce…
Students debate plan for league table of their own According to Times Higher Education NUS conference was due to discuss a proposal that students should design their own league table: The motion says that the ranking wou…
Latest HESA data: Lots of students in Higher Education Institutions 2008/09 The newly released Students in Higher Education Institutions 2008/09 publication from the Higher Education Statistics Agency shows that there we…
Miserable weather makes universities more attractive to prospective students According to a recent article in the Telegraph: Schoolchildren who visit a university on a cloudy day are more likely to decide to go there bec…
Why the environment is an electoral non-issue Excellent and (obviously) timely new blog from the University of Nottingham School of Politics and International Relations. An extract from a typical post: Ask people if they…
Ranking Confessions from THE’s Deputy Editor Some time ago THE announced a bit of a change in its approach to rankings and its previous league table partner joined up with US News and World Report Inside Higher Ed carrie…
Prime Minister unveils election pledges at University of Nottingham The Prime Minister used a speech at The University of Nottingham to set out his party’s five key pledges ahead of the imminent General Election. Visitin…
Our universities are broken, it seems According to a new report from the Adam Smith Institute, higher education should not receive public money in the way that it does: In The Broken University, education expert James St…
Auriol Stevens: ‘We should think about creating a private university in Winchester’ In a recent article in the Independent Auriol Stevens offered a novel proposal for the establishment of a different kind of university: …
“French universities squabble over who has rights to Sorbonne” The Times has a fascinating report on a dispute among French universities over who has the rights to use the title Sorbonne: Fights over the Sorbonne, the se…
Research consumes much time and money that could be better spent on teaching students Good article in the Scotsman by Professor John Haldane of St Andrews offering a view on the balance of funding between teaching and re…
High interest in Parents’ Weekend at Stanford According to Stanford News the high interest in their Parents’ Weekend is a pleasant surprise and more than 3,000 family members are expected to visit Stanford for the popula…
High interest in Parents’ Weekend at Stanford According to Stanford News the high interest in their Parents’ Weekend is a pleasant surprise and more than 3,000 family members are expected to visit Stanford for the popula…
A new website offers help with FOI requests Reports are compiled by sending the same FOI request to all 125 UK universities and tabulating the responses. These are a useful way of highlighting aspects of a university whi…
“Drop the ‘mickey mouse’ degrees” says head of Royal Society of Chemistry It’s silly season again. According to a blog post from Richard Pike of the RSC: ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree courses should be swept away, and priorities…
“Drop the ‘mickey mouse’ degrees” says head of Royal Society of Chemistry It’s silly season again. According to a blog post from Richard Pike of the RSC: ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree courses should be swept away, and priorities…
“Tory leaders last night vowed to help more teens get to university” Important news on more public information for students appearing first in the increasingly education-focused and university-oriented organ that is The …
Lord Mandelson delivered the keynote address at the Lord Dearing Memorial Conference held at the University of Nottingham in February 2010. Lord Mandelson commented on Lord Dearing’s contribution to higher education: Lor…