Clocking off early
The Quality Assurance Agency is to issue new guidance on student workloads after research found that English undergraduates study for only three-quarters of the hours it recommends.A report by the...

The Quality Assurance Agency is to issue new guidance on student workloads after research found that English undergraduates study for only three-quarters of the hours it recommends.A report by the...

Russell Group member is first to successfully appeal against full QAA review. Jack Grove reports

“Me, ugly? My Jimmy Choos make me feel BEAUTIFUL,” ran the headline in the Daily Mail’s Femail section on 9 May, above an article by Mary Beard, professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge,...

Naked impactOne of our leading psychologists, Dr Fritz Itzig, is currently languishing in a police cell after a day-long series of attempts to increase the research impact of his work on short-term...

Graduates from 1994 Group members are more likely than those of any other mission group to go on to taught postgraduate study, research has found

More than 350 people, including several academics, have signed a petition protesting against the University of Leeds’ treatment of an international postgraduate student

Lab audits could demonstrate integrity, 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity hears. By Elizabeth Gibney

Event on academic freedom identifies ‘one-sided far-leftist agitprop’
While John Furlong may have right on his side in his criticism of some aspects of recent English education policy, he is making the classic mistake of trying to persuade people that the grass is...

The gulf between the QAA benchmark on study time and the hours students put in raises questions about its judgement

Jane O’Grady on how the rise of love as a central value of modern society is leading us to the brink of second humanism

Hepi/Which? uncovers huge shortfall in study time

Technology augments but cannot supersede intuition, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Somewhere, in a class past or future, your nemesis awaits. John Kaag on the existential terror of a pedagogical puzzle

Russell Group member successfully appeals against full QAA review