Lord Browne of Madingley is likely to appear before a cross-party group of MPs when a wide-ranging inquiry into the government's reforms of higher education is launched.Adrian Bailey, chair of the...
Lib Dem deputy must move quickly in access role, say senior sector figures. Rebecca Attwood reports
These cans are part of the brewing collection in the University of Glasgow’s Scottish Business Archive.
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Dennis Tourish argues that journal rankings are haunting business schools and being used to micromanage researchers ("Publish or be damned", 16 December). He suggests that they distort scholarship by...
While we deplore the University of Bristol's high-handed decision to abolish the study of German literature pre-1750, we wish to dissociate ourselves from Cyril Edwards' unfounded imputation of...
Higher education is becoming such fun.Things were once so simple: institutions selected students, some people taught them, other people examined them and they went off with degrees, or not.A move to...
While I appreciate Tim Birkhead's critique of the "box-ticking culture" in secondary education and share his concerns about the dangers of its encroachment into higher education ("This is customer...
Vinicius Licks identifies four essentials to get the world talking about Brazilian academics' ideas ("Don't always follow the crowd", 9 December). But a fifth one is missing. Junior and senior...
To see a journal where the article format was redesigned for digital distribution, as discussed in the article "Rip it up and start again" (16 December), take a look at Optics Express (www....
It seems that 30 years after the death of C.P. Snow we are still fighting the somewhat pointless (liberal) arts versus science battle ("Guiding light in death's shadow"; "It's the breadth that...
The president of the National Union of Students has set out a series of issues that must be addressed by the government’s new advocate for access to education if the role is to be more than “window...
The number of people bidding for a university place in the UK for 2011-12 is up by 2.5 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
After 18, the government becomes very confused about education, says David Colquhoun