From Johns Hopkins University News Releases: Some radical steps announced by JHU’s President in order to address the problems caused by the current economic situation: We now project that university revenues during fisca…
World Universities’ ranking on the Web: top 4000 World Ranking. Webometrics here we come. A league table which seems to be a new one on the block. 4,000 institutions are ranked with the top 10 as follows: 1 Massachusetts…
World Universities’ ranking on the Web: top 4000 World Ranking. Webometrics here we come. A league table which seems to be a new one on the block. 4,000 institutions are ranked with the top 10 as follows: 1 Massachusetts…
Latest league table from the FT is now available. Not too much to get excited about but the top 10 do have something of a lead over the rest of the pack 1 University of Pennsylvania: Wharton 1 London Business School 3 Ha…
Just visited Zayed University (Abu Dhabi campus). Really impressive operation but only 10 years old. Part of hugely ambitious wider vision for development of HE in UAE and number of really interesting parallels with Univ…
DIUS has developed its ‘listening to students’ approach with a new(ish) blog: Listening to Students Whilst very early days and not a lot of content yet it strikes me as a fair effort to find one route to engage. How dili…
Is this the future for UK HE? Scandals of Higher Education – The New York Review of Books A really interesting and hard-hitting review article from the New York Review of Books of a set of recent publications on US highe…
The University of Cambridge is 800 years old this year It’s got an 800th Anniversary Website which details the extraordinary achievements over the centuries and a big programme of events. Happy 800th!
Northwest Missouri State University Tries E-Book Readers, With Mixed Results According to the Chronicle 240 students at Northwest Missouri State University recently swapped their printed textbooks for Sonys e-book reader…
Diverting piece in the Chronicle about the impact of new technologies on student behaviour and the campus experience Abilene Christian U. Will Continue iPhone Giveaway. The giveaway seems to have had an impact on the way…
Really super email offer just came my way: “Show what you know with a degree” was the subject line. WHAT A GREAT IDEA! We provide a concept that will allow anyone with sufficient work experience to obtain a fully verifia…
The Grauniad, in December, ran this lovely Notebook item in which I was honoured to have my name misspelled: We know universities are cash-strapped, but isn’t it going too far to suggest they generate money by building a…
RAE 2008 results are now out (effective 18 December 2008) Many, many ways to calculate rankings from the data but arguably the most authoritative and convincing one comes from Research Fortnight: Research Fortnight Power…
What element would you like for Christmas? The “Periodic Table of Videos” team, along with a few other people at the University of Nottingham’s School of Chemistry, have provided some answers. Best of all, they are accom…
Universities UK celebrates 90 years To mark this notable event, and presumably to provide stocking fillers for many lucky Vice-Chancellors, UUK has released an exciting book of facts: Did you know that the first official…
A different way of thinking about University administration? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8&hl=en&fs=1&w=670]
via The Debate on the Future of Higher Education In a speech at the end of February, John Denham announced his intention to develop a framework for Higher Education over the next ten to fifteen years. He said: The world …
A brief podcast on the launch of the new programme for Graduate Trainees at the University of Nottingham (produced by Andrew Burden of the Communications team) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksckU7kLuYQ&hl=en&fs…
Following up earlier post on the THE 2008 rankings, 17 UK universities make the top 100: 3 Cambridge 4 Oxford 6 Imperial 7 UCL 22 King’s 23 Edinburgh 29 Manchester 32 Bristol 66 LSE 69 Warwick 73 Glasgow 75 Birmingham 76…
The top 50 Universities in 2008 are as follows as published 9 October in THE: Rank Rank 2008 2007 INSTITUTION NAME COUNTRY 1 1 HARVARD University United States 2 2= YALE University United States 3 2= University of CAMBRI…