How cheats prosper in exams
The president of the British Psychological Society has lashed out at British university examinations, saying that results give a misleading picture of teaching quality and are often an inadequate...
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By-election tests scholars' bottle
A snapshot of students' political views will emerge today with the results of a by-election where almost every voter is a scholar. Higher education was top of the agenda as party candidates contested...
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Have-nots perform below par
Huge disparities in the wealth of Oxford's colleges are affecting the quality of student learning, it was claimed this week. Students in poorer colleges tend to perform less well in exams than fellow...
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Gareth gathering
Robert Cormack of Queen's University Belfast and Robert Osborne of the University of Ulster, who head the universities' joint centre for research on higher education, are known collectively as The...
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Four star fuel
Academics at Ulster University have clearly had more experience of financial calculations than their colleagues at Queen's. The Queen's delegates, who had paid the day rate for the SRHE conference in...
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Model answer
While the public face of last week's Royal Economic Society Conference at Swansea was to be seen in the texts of the 190 papers delivered, audience reaction suggested that the reality of an economist...
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No Cant do
Further evidence for those who allege that economics can find a plausible if not always terribly helpful solution to any problem. Having scheduled Andy Dickerson of Kent University to deliver two...
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No can do
Dr Dickerson also won the Offer You Can't Refuse Prize at the RES when his views on corporate takeovers so interested one radio station that they invited him to get up at 5.45 am to talk to their...
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Easter eggnog
Swansea University psychologists Steve Glautier and John Bankart clearly have a pretty good grasp of the principles of their subject as applied to students. Swansea noticeboards have been emblazoned...
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Desert left to air
The THES expedition to Biosphere 2, the ecology centre in the Arizona desert built to perform experiments hermetically sealed off from the rest of the Earth (Biosphere 1), has revealed the secret of...
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Fast exit
Alumnus to be proud of No: 44 is a graduate of City of London Polytechnic which of course is now London Guildhall University. Given Guildhall's sorry money troubles, one would expect it to be...
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Me and my shadow MP build some bridges
Shadowing is helping to bridge the gap between MPs and universities. The scheme, initiated by the Parliamentary University Group, aims to provide an opportunity for MPs and universities to discover...
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Credit transfer protects access
A new Northern Ireland credit transfer scheme embracing both further and higher education could help protect access by students from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to the chairman of the...
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Further and higher education institutions to merge
* Further and higher education institutions in both the north and south of Ireland have come together in a unique bid to share resources. A pioneering conference in Armagh, organised by the...
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All-year study is 'inevitable'
Universities can no longer afford to stay semi-closed for 22 weeks a year, according to Tessa Blackstone, master of Birkbeck College and former Labour spokesperson on education in the House of Lords...