Typical. You wait ages for a new set of university rankings and then several show up in just a couple of weeks First of the latest batch (as previously reported in an earlier post) appeared in the Telegraph late July. De…
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has just published its annual Education Briefing Book. Now, there are many interesting pieces of data in this briefing book relating to all sectors of education but the most eye-catching …
Anticipating the August ritual of handwringing about A level results Peter Wilby provides a well argued antidote in the Guardian. He rightly highlights the problems associated with making meaningful judgements about stan…
Follow up to Classic August survey Leeds University clearly believes this new research has real merit. And that you will be quids in if you choose them over, say, the University of Nottingham: During one academic year, g…
Follow up to Getting cross about league tables Bernard Kingston, who compiles the table which appeared recently in the Telegraph and which was criticised by the VC of Anglia Ruskin recently has responded. Prof Thorne des…
Another Facebook story, this time from Wales on Sunday There aren’t many more visible places for sharing coursework really: Cardiff University has reprimanded more than 20 bio-sciences students over comments made on the …
This piece in today’s Guardian starts off sensibly enough: Fewer undergraduates take jobs to help fund their studies …and shows some reasonably sensible-looking data which suggests that the number of students working in …
News from the Commons education select committee as reported by the BBC: (a) International students are good news (although think it is a wee bit more than £4m they bring to the UK economy) (b) We need to work harder, he…
Italian HE Minister bans honoraries shock The Italian HE minister has banned the award of honarary degrees according to the Chronicle, claiming that celebrity recipients bring dishonour. Citing the need to protect the “p…
Nice snippet in the Cambridge Evening News on the latest league table which has just appeared in the Telegraph (note that it appears rather similar in methodology to the table which used to appear in the Times). The vice…
That’s how much Purdue University is said to have spent on a bit of a do for some of its donors (ie around £290k). According to the Chronicle, the bash was to celebrate the end of a seven year campaign which raised $1.7B…
Interesting report from HEPI on the economic costs and benefits of international students. The basic argument is that international students benefit the UK economy hugely. It is therefore in the nation’s interest to have…
A really good speech from Lord Jones at the Graduation Ceremony on 19 July: The audio is available on the University of Nottingham Podcast site. Video also available (for the full gowned effect). He generously (and, of c…
Mike Baker on the BBC website comments on the possibilities for a “messy divorce” following the break up of the DfES. All seems harmonious so far though, apart from a bit of confusion in the post-16 area. The role of the…
Leeds Met “offers degree in northernness” University students can learn about coal-mining, rugby league and brass bands as part of a new degree course in northern life. And pies? The one-year Master of Arts course in Nor…
Ed Balls has announced that every university should be working on an academy Ed Balls, the new Schools Secretary, used his inaugural speech to the House of Commons to call for an accelerated expansion of the academy prog…
…from international programmes. Following the withdrawal by UNSW from its Singapore expedition, others are reining in too according to the Chronicle The University of Southern Queensland last week confirmed that nearly o…
(Ok, strictly speaking, even if there was a demographic timebomb you would require something a bit more drastic than a detailed analysis of the data to ‘defuse’ it) A new Hepi report on future student numbers: Demand for…
(Ok, strictly speaking, even if there was a demographic timebomb you would require something a bit more drastic than a detailed analysis of the data to ‘defuse’ it) A new Hepi report on future student numbers: Demand for…
A slightly breathless PR about the fact that we are implementing SITS has appeared It is quite difficult to make this kind of thing sound genuinely interesting and I think this represents a decent attempt. However, the m…