Follow up to earlier post The interesting Open Culture blog has a very useful assemblage of University related podcasts. Overwhelmingly North American but helps to remind us how much catching up is required. See the post…
Really quite worrying UNESCO report All about corruption – in schools as well as HE. A lot of it, unsurprisingly, is on the web: Higher education corruption usually takes the form of fake universities, bogus degrees and …
Follow up to earlier post. Edinburgh’s Senate has confirmed the decision as reported by the BBC. And other universities are considering this too: It is understood Michigan State University and The University of Massachus…
And are they the right kind of courses? Or should we be following Melbourne’s example? New students at Melbourne University, the country’s second oldest, will, from January, start on one of just six broad-based degrees, …
Edinburgh’s Senate is considering the withdrawal of the Honorary Degree awarded to Robert Mugabe in 1984. This does highlight the problems which can be caused when awarding Honorary Degrees to serving politicians, here o…
but only for a minute see here And they may have been in a particularly positive frame of mind Still, interesting test piece – who did the work though?
Or rather “commencement” A long but interesting article by John Sutherland And of course they pay large sums to avoid the following… When Rice University, in 2005, decided for the first time to have a serving woman profe…
But only in North America it seems… See here for the blurb. This has been in the pipeline for a while though I think.
See the full story about this on the improbably named Canoe site. Schools across the country are taking steps to broaden the appeal of the major. More than a dozen universities have adopted “media computation” programs, …
A novel approach to overcoming rising postage costs… The initiative, developed by Anglia Ruskin University, cuts down on production and postage but has yet to prove whether it also brings an increase in the number of app…
Management Fads in Higher Education: Where They Come From, What They Do, Why They Fail by Robert Birnbaum This is just an outstanding book. Although the focus is on the USA, the messages are eminently translatable to the…
Hack to boffin in six months? University seeks journalist Let us ignore the shorthand of “hack” and “boffin” here – it is a really good story… A university is hoping to turn a journalist from a hack into boffin in six mo…
Hack to boffin in six months? University seeks journalist Let us ignore the shorthand of “hack” and “boffin” here – it is a really good story… A university is hoping to turn a journalist from a hack into boffin in six mo…
Google bans essay writing ads Apparently: The advert ban from the Google search engine has been “warmly welcomed” by university authorities. But it has angered essay writing firms which say this will unfairly punish legi…
Is this really that shocking? Not quite controversial (but entertaining as always) article by Peter Knight in the Guardian. Basically, he argues that some universities are genuinely better than others. Difficult to disag…
Bloomin’ marvellous As part of Nottingham in Bloom students are being encouraged to do a spot of gardening. This should also serve to show that not all students conform to the traditional stereotype. Decent prize too. Al…
It seems we’re not the only place with issues… The “studentification” of peaceful localities is destroying communities, says Liz Morris, secretary of the residents’ association for the Brynmill and Uplands area of Swanse…
Writing about web page. Now I suspect that this has been around for a while but have only just noticed. There is something absolutely appalling and yet fascinating about these descriptions though: In The Sims 2 Universit…
Swansea University doing things the good old fashioned way: But not every student recruiter is buying into the hype. Some warn that dabbling in new media can prove expensive and time-consuming. It can create more work fo…
Or, put another way, is it likely that universities will seek to award more firsts to boost league table rankings? Geoffrey Alderman thinks so: The more firsts and upper seconds a university awards, the higher its rankin…