Welsh government: no more public funding at for-profit colleges
Move criticised by Buckingham professor as ‘blatant prejudice against for-profit sector’
Move criticised by Buckingham professor as ‘blatant prejudice against for-profit sector’
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Banning ghostwriting services from advertising won’t stop students cheating, but four simple steps could hobble them, says Geoffrey Alderman
My friend Geoffrey Alderman and I agree on most things, but on the matter of his academic freedom and the mock-academic conference on Israel’s right to exist at the University of Southampton, I have...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
The Quality Assurance Agency, in a recently published report on Manchester Metropolitan University, declares that "confidence can reasonably be placed in the soundness of the institution's present...
Geoffrey Alderman offers to supervise critic’s doctorate
Scholars and senior sector figures reveal the books they’ll be reading over the summer break – for work or pleasure or both
The Office for Students will kill off institutional autonomy, says Geoffrey Alderman, and the sector has only itself to blame
Geoffrey Alderman should have checked his facts before delivering his opinion (“Darkness visible”, 11 July).I agree with him that Quality Assurance Agency reviews matter to providers, whether in...
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) now requires all private UK-based collaborative partners of British universities to be further accredited by one of a small number of designated private bodies, even if...
‘Institution level’ designation granted to ifs University College in August makes it first to win the status since 2006