Useful league table overview article by Gavin Moodie A nice piece this which offers a good overview of international rankings. For example: Of the various ratings of institutions idealists prefer the approach pioneered i…
Students have to take exercise in order to graduate Students at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania are upset about a school rule requiring overweight students to take an exercise course in order to graduate. The rule app…
A very good year The US has a had a good year in terms of international student recruitment: The number of foreign students attending American colleges hit an all-time high in 2008, capping three consecutive years of vig…
Another view on Honorary Degrees Following an earlier post, here we have a slightly different take, this time from the Daily Mail: Degree day at a university in 21st-century Britain…’And our honorary doctorates this year…
A league table with a slightly different emphasis Top 10 of the Top 100 Global universities ranking: 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 2 California Institute of Technology, USA 3 University of Tokyo, Japan 4 C…
Top scholars should lead research universities: Review of fascinating new work in University World News. Research universities should be led by brilliant scholars and not merely talented managers, says Warwick University…
Top scholars should lead research universities: Review of fascinating new work in University World News. Research universities should be led by brilliant scholars and not merely talented managers, says Warwick University…
From the Chronicle: Are College E-Mail Addresses on the Way Out? A report from Educause on IT issues in higher education suggests that provision of university email addresses for students may be a thing of the past. It f…
Researchers need networks too A report in the Chronicle notes: A $12.2-million federal stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health will finance a network some are calling a Facebook for scientists. Several univ…
World’s Best Universities: Top 200 from US News and World Report Slighly misleading this as is the same league table as previously published by THE. What is a little more interesting is that, from next year, THE will be …
World’s Best Universities: Top 200 from US News and World Report Slighly misleading this as is the same league table as previously published by THE. What is a little more interesting is that, from next year, THE will be …
World league table: Field rankings Following the publication of the World League Table, the ARWU Field rankings have been released. These are the companion tables to the overall world rankings produced by the team at SJT…
2009 Shanghai Jiao Tong University League Table just published… The latest SJTU rankings for 2009 have now been published. Harvard is again top as in 2007 and 2008, and Cambridge remains in 4th position and top from the …
New HE Framework Follow up to earlier post on HE as food-labelling: Lord Mandelson has launched Higher Ambitions. There’s a lot in here and much of it yet to be fully fleshed out. And the much trailed element on improved…
Paul reacts to a government plan to introduce food labelling to university courses.
CHE Excellence Ranking 2009 A league table that isn’t actually a league table: via “European best universities” – ZEIT ONLINE The CHE Excellence Ranking compares a selected group of European universities for each subject…
CHE Excellence Ranking 2009 A league table that isn’t actually a league table: via “European best universities” – ZEIT ONLINE The CHE Excellence Ranking compares a selected group of European universities for each subject…
Moaners not Maoists According to the Guardian, David Willetts has said that old-fashioned universities are letting students down: Universities are badly failing students with unfit teaching and old-fashioned methods and …
Moaners not Maoists According to the Guardian, David Willetts has said that old-fashioned universities are letting students down: Universities are badly failing students with unfit teaching and old-fashioned methods and …
Special Collections as Laboratories Interesting post from the Chronicle of Higher Education It’s a report on a recent forum which looked at the opportunities for using special collections to teach students about the poss…