Which seems to be: neither higher nor lower, we should neither raise nor lower the cap According to a Guardian report on a recent speech: The Conservatives today called for the review of tuition fees planned for 2009 to …
Predicting RAE outcomes before the submission Interesting RAE pre-results (by 13 months) commentary in The Guardian According to a league table based on research impact, PhD numbers and income – which was drawn up by Evi…
That’s all we need Not entirely clear from the Guardian story exactly how the “Invincible Donovan University” will qualify for the award of the university title but guess these things will just kind of happen: Donovan cl…
Not quite But in a recent entertaining debate in the US, it was proposed that three members of the Ivy league – Harvard, Yale and Princeton – be shut down altogether. A fanciful notion but it clearly gave rise to lots of…
An important new report on some of the biggest challenges in widening participation The report focuses on areas with the lowest HE progression rates: between 8% and 13% of 18- and 19-year-olds in these constituencies pur…
The final report of the group on measuring and recording student achievement has been published The report (available from UUK) basically accepts that changing the traditional degree classification system is just too dar…
Presented by the Aspen Institute and with the intriguing title of ‘Beyond Grey Pinstripes’. This table offers an alternative ranking of business schools which focuses on integration of corporate social responsibility iss…
Princeton resorts to norm-referencing From the Chronicle, September 18, 2007 Princeton Gives Top Marks to Its 3-Year-Old Policy to Control Grade Inflation It’s harder to be a straight-A student at Princeton University th…
Large number of UCAS cheats But to what end?! Anyway, UCAS is going to scan all personal statements this time around according to the BBC. We’ll see how many use the burnt pyjamas story next time (284 in the trial last y…
Large number of UCAS cheats But to what end?! Anyway, UCAS is going to scan all personal statements this time around according to the BBC. We’ll see how many use the burnt pyjamas story next time (284 in the trial last y…
From the Chronicle: Investigation Uncovers Admissions Scandal at Prestigious University in Uganda, by WACHIRA KIGOTHO Makerere University, in Uganda, one of the most prestigious universities in Africa, may revoke more th…
According to Business Week, this is what the big companies are now doing, ie providing an internal social networking alternative. By luring employees into a network, companies hope to leverage their skills and contacts. …
An outstanding new table from the École des Mines de Paris The École des Mines de Paris is proposing a new international classification of higher education institutions with regard to the performance of their training pr…
UK students spending less time studying than elsewhere in Europe A new HEPI report on a survey of 15,000 students finds that they averaged 26 hours of class contact and private learning. The BBC coverage provides a helpf…
The Sunday Times has now (23 September) published its University Guide The full breathless analysis can be found here and the ranking details (which, excitingly, enable you to compare two institutions by removing all of …
From the Chronicle Quest for International Measures of Higher-Education Learning Results Raises Concerns By AISHA LABI A fledgling international effort to develop comparable assessment standards for measuring how much st…
Following a recent debate on UK universities in China where different views and experiences were shared on whether or not this was all a terribly good idea, a handy summary is provided by a newly spotted HE blog which lo…
From the Guardian This total, which dates back to 2003-04, shows that education is worth more to UK exports than financial services or the car industry, according to a British Council report. The Guardian, which also has…
The Wall Street Journal’s blog (“The numbers guy”) has an interesting piece on the addition of a couple of new rankings by US News The new ones are: best black colleges, and best of the highly ranked schools that are eas…
Interesting story in the Guardian reporting on a presentation at BERA conference I’ve not seen the research so there isn’t a huge amount to go on here: The government’s policy of expanding university education has reduce…