It’s that time of year again, when everyone is producing their league tables. So, now the Guardian one is out. And there are some pretty extraordinary results in here with, for example, Bournemouth and Nottingham Trent b…
New league table from the Independent (It appears that the authors of the Good University Guide (previously with the Times) have found a new home.) Some quite large movers in (and out) of the top 20: Significant risers i…
Writing about the MIT Admissions home page This all just seems a cut above anything offered by any UK university. Lots of others have some of these components but nothing as comprehensive as this.
The Guardian has a report on an exciting new piece of market research In what is undoubtedly a totally altruistic piece of work for the benefit of UKHE and not at all any kind of attempt to get free publicity and drum up…
Entertaining report about a recent “dance your PhD” contest. This interesting idea could be extended to offer a new form of assessment at undergraduate level too.
Follow up to post about books that achieve this end. This site does the correlation with music and SAT scores. Looking at Facebook for University of Nottingham today it seems the following represent our top 10: 1 Muse 2 …
Follow up to post about books that achieve this end. This site does the correlation with music and SAT scores. Looking at Facebook for University of Nottingham today it seems the following represent our top 10: 1 Muse 2 …
Interesting and slightly scary blog post in the Chronicle on the opportunities for outsourcing student services in US higher education. As one person interviewed puts it: “It’s almost taking the people out of it”. Some o…
Report here of signing of an agreement by the University of Newcastle with the Government of Malaysia to establish a medical programme in Johor: The new international branch campus in Johor, Malaysia will be named Newcas…
Interesting piece of work – a website which shows the correlation between favourite books on Facebook and average SAT scores for particular US institutions. The five highest-scoring books (and Average SAT scores): 1. Lol…
Interesting piece of work – a website which shows the correlation between favourite books on Facebook and average SAT scores for particular US institutions. The five highest-scoring books (and Average SAT scores): 1. Lol…
It is possible to mount some form of defence of the companies supplying (at a price) essays to students who, for whatever reason, would rather not write them themselves. It’s a pretty lousy argument though (simply meetin…
A wide-ranging speech by the Minister, John Denham, seems to have been received in a rather low key way in the UK It does get some coverage in the Guardian and the Chronicle is on the case. Denham looked to be indicating…
Exeter, according to the Guardian, has banned them following the death of a student as part of a society initiation A previous post referred to the problems of the Freshers’ Week drinking culture and the Government’s con…
Exeter, according to the Guardian, has banned them following the death of a student as part of a society initiation A previous post referred to the problems of the Freshers’ Week drinking culture and the Government’s con…
There are, I think, quite a few solid textbooks out there which are full of helpful advice for Heads of academic departments or schools. (For example: Managing the Academic Unit, by Allen Bolton, Open University Press, 2…
According to a recent story in The Times it is “Last orders for boozy freshers”. THE days of new students being initiated into binge drinking at universities may be numbered. The government is considering plans to clamp …
Snappily titled SJTU-ARWU Field rankings have just been published. These are the companion tables to the overall world rankings produced by the team at SJTU. Due to overwhelming demand it seems: Since the first publicati…
According to the Guardian, in a report on a conference they have sponsored: Universities should offer more detailed information about courses to the Facebook generation, the shadow universities secretary, David Willetts,…
There is a tendency for many of us to assume that every new cohort of students is even more IT-savvy than the last (and significantly ahead of almost all staff) and that we therefore need to offer them just about everyth…