Really really interest-ing
Writing about: Really interest-ing BBC just reported on ‘Help for poor with tuition fees’ More students from poorer families in England and Northern Ireland are to receive full grants for university, the government has s…
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Really interest-ing
According to the Guardian the Government is about to raise the level of interest on student loans to commercial levels: The head of the newly formed Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham, is set…
Community relations – not the first
Reading University has just employed a community relations manager University bosses have appointed a troubleshooter to put an end to antisocial behaviour by students affecting residents. Reading University’s new communi…
Crisis communications: ask the lawyers first
Interesting views from a conference of education lawyers in the USA as reported in the Chroncicle Specific comments, in a post-Virginia Tech context, included: Avoid email “Those e-mail messages always come back to haunt…
When is a chaplain not a chaplain?
Answer: When s/he is a ‘Life-Skills Assistant’ Iowa State Mulls a ‘Life-Skills Assistant,’ Not a Chaplain reports the Chronicle Iowa State University’s Athletics Council has approved a plan to hire a “volunteer life-skil…
"Dysfunctional" universities
Extract from an article in the Chronicle India’s Prime Minister Assails Universities as Below Average and ‘Dysfunctional’ India’s prime minister revealed on Friday that almost two-thirds of the nation’s universities and …
“Dysfunctional” universities
Extract from an article in the Chronicle India’s Prime Minister Assails Universities as Below Average and ‘Dysfunctional’ India’s prime minister revealed on Friday that almost two-thirds of the nation’s universities and …
Honorary degree not revoked
A story in the Chronicle which follows up an earlier post on this topic University of Massachusetts trustees have voted to rebuke Robert G. Mugabe but not to rescind the honorary degree UMass presented to the Zimbabwean …
Revolting people
Writing about Revolts A website overseen by Professor Philip Cowley from Nottingham (he of frequent media comments on these matters) which offers the following: This is an academic research project looking at the way MPs…
Brightest of tomorrow's students don't understand fees
Another shock story from the Education Guardian on fees: A study published today Pure Potential, an independent campaign group which aims to increase access to university, shows that 75% of bright Year 12 state school st…
Brightest of tomorrow’s students don’t understand fees
Another shock story from the Education Guardian on fees: A study published today Pure Potential, an independent campaign group which aims to increase access to university, shows that 75% of bright Year 12 state school st…
International fees "vastly inflated"?
An entertaining story in the Education Guardian: Foreign students charged hugely inflated tuition fees, survey reveals Universities and colleges in the UK charge international students vastly inflated fees to study at bo…
International fees “vastly inflated”?
An entertaining story in the Education Guardian: Foreign students charged hugely inflated tuition fees, survey reveals Universities and colleges in the UK charge international students vastly inflated fees to study at bo…
An interesting new take on student support
See this service which will be launched in September: Academic Support Ltd I find it difficult to extract many positives from this (beyond grudging praise for web-based entrepreneurs) but can easily think of a whole seri…
Student housing cliche city
The Guardian has story on buy-to-let and studentification in Nottingham No danger of a hackneyed reference to the city or a balanced assessment of the impact institutions make here: Nottingham’s forest of housing despair…
Exporting "knowledge services": we all deserve an award for this
The Guardian, reporting on a publication from the Work Foundation, comments that the UK’s exporting of “knowledge services”, which includes universities delivering courses to international students, is outstanding the UK…
Exporting “knowledge services”: we all deserve an award for this
The Guardian, reporting on a publication from the Work Foundation, comments that the UK’s exporting of “knowledge services”, which includes universities delivering courses to international students, is outstanding the UK…
No more fees in Scotland: how relaxing
The minority SNP administration is set to scrap the fees paid by Scottish students (in Scotland) with the support of the LibDems (who were party to the introduction of fees). It will be interesting to see what the conseq…
Facebook-ish: for the slightly older generation
See the E2 site here Am slightly ashamed to admit that I have never heard of Elon University but they seem to have done something mildly interesting here. If you look at the sample profile (bottom left) you get an idea o…
Graduation – Harvard Style
Writing about web page. Although I’ve not actually seen one yet, my guess is that our Graduation ceremonies actually have a lot going for them – better than this description of Harvard last year in any case. The morning …