Social diversity in BTECs
I was pleased to read that the number of students holding BTEC qualifications who have been accepted on to university courses has doubled since 2008 (“Gender gaps among students revealed by Ucas”,...
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Teaching a green standard
A glaring omission from the People & Planet University League 2015 tables is any meaningful measure of teaching quality and how the programmes that universities offer contribute to the life...
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Counterproductive counter-terrorism bill
It is entirely appropriate that the UK government should seek to do all it reasonably can to prevent people from being drawn into terrorist activity (“‘People should be allowed to say things we don’t...
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The week in higher education - 29 January 2015
When cuts to academic pensions were first announced, many predicted a “winter of discontent” featuring strikes, marking boycotts and campus protests. But it seems the battle against reforms to the...
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The extras that make a difference
Enrichment of university life by academics’ ancillary activities is threatened as the workforce is pushed towards casualisation
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St Patrick’s College students top private loans bill
Students at college are accessing nearly £96m of SLC funding
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Who got what class of degree
Part-time students are much less likely to secure an upper second-class degree than their full-time peers, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency reveal
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Philanthropy will flourish despite £9,000 fees, say sector heads
Alumni expected to become lifelong investors in higher education, UUK and CASE Europe conference hears
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Cambridge academics find history in their own home
Apartment block may have had large role in the early Cambridge University Press
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Space race makes University of the West of England’s campus fit to face the future
An estate master plan will help the institution equip students for the 21st century, v-c Steve West says
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TED winner shows what children can learn with their heads in the cloud
Newcastle scholar Sugata Mitra’s $1 million prize helps fund self-organised learning environments worldwide
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Disaster City: where a catastrophe is a good day’s work
Emergency services from around the world come to train at the small village with a unique connection to Texas A&M
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Today’s undergraduates: born into a second life
A rift will always separate digital natives from others, Shahidha Bari believes
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Inherent Vice, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
The work of Thomas Pynchon makes its Hollywood debut in a nostalgia noir tale faithfully adapted by a kindred spirit
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Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority and Liberal Education in the Digital Age, by Thomas Leitch
Research tools have been revolutionised by the internet but, asks John Gilbey, are they reliable?