The Tories want to build a website to help graduate employment according to THE: A Conservative government would establish a web service designed to help students choose degree courses that are most likely to lead to a g…
Sunday Times League Table published The final UK league table of the season is now out, courtesy of the Sunday Times. Not too many surprises here: 1. Cambridge 2. Oxford 3. Imperial 4. LSE 5. St Andrews 6. UCL 7. Warwick…
According to the Times Higher Education analysis of the latest NSS data, students are more satisfied than they’ve ever been. For universities in England, students’ overall satisfaction rate rose slightly from 81 per cent…
According to the Times Higher Education analysis of the latest NSS data, students are more satisfied than they’ve ever been. For universities in England, students’ overall satisfaction rate rose slightly from 81 per cent…
Welcoming new students… Universities seems to have got an awful lot better at induction in recent years. Judging though by the Cornell University New Students site, UK institutions have quite a long way yet to go. Althou…
Clearly not worth bothering according to the Independent Are degrees worth the paper they’re printed on? Once, a university education was a passport to a brighter future, a better-paid career, a life of privilege. But af…
Follow up to earlier post on the 2009 Guardian League Table There have been a couple of revisions to the overall Guardian League Table, which now looks as set out below. The most significant change is the drop of the Uni…
2008 Shanghai Jiao Tong University League Table just published… The latest SJTU rankings for 2008 now published although not “official” it seems until 15 August. Harvard is again top as in 2007, and Cambridge remains in …
Silly season is upon us… A “poll of polls” as produced by the Times Higher Education. It is a simple average of rankings of the most recent UK league tables published. No claims are made, rightly, for statistical rigour.…
Splendid new set of videos from Professor Martyn Poliakoff and colleagues of the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. The Periodic table offers a number of really entertaining and informative short videos…
The People and Planet “Green League” Another fun league table here but really makes all of the others look like models of objectivity and statistical rigour. From THE 1 Gloucestershire (last year 5th) 2 Plymouth (2) 3 UW…
The People and Planet “Green League” Another fun league table here but really makes all of the others look like models of objectivity and statistical rigour. From THE 1 Gloucestershire (last year 5th) 2 Plymouth (2) 3 UW…
Interesting piece in the Chronicle about the student experience at High Point University (where “every student receives an extraordinary education in a fun environment with caring people”). The features apparently includ…
Interesting piece in the Chronicle about the student experience at High Point University (where “every student receives an extraordinary education in a fun environment with caring people”). The features apparently includ…
Aspire, great new sculpture, is now complete And, 60m tall, it really is rather impressive and striking. Details are here and some news coverage too.
Aspire, great new sculpture, is now complete And, 60m tall, it really is rather impressive and striking. Details are here and some news coverage too.
Is just out and can be viewed here. Top 20 is: 1 Oxford 2 Cambridge 3 Imperial College 4 London School of Economics 5 St Andrews 6 Warwick 7 University College London 8 Durham 9 York 10 Bristol 11 King’s College London 1…
Is online provision going to dictate the University timetable in future? Nice piece in the Chronicle on this. The story includes an interesting (worrying?!) commentary about a communications lecturer, a Mr Kehoe: When he…
As reported by the BBC, UCL, the OU and Trinity have joined the iTunes U stable along with a group of other non-US universities. It remains to be seen whether they will reach the top 10 with any of their offerings but on…
Counting what is measured or measuring what counts? League tables and their impact on higher education institutions in England A report on League tables commissioned by Hefce has recently been published. This is a seriou…