Merger spawns massive hybrid
Thames Valley University is to merge with Reading College to create the UK's most advanced hybrid further and higher education institution. The merged institution, which bills itself as a "vocational...
Thames Valley University is to merge with Reading College to create the UK's most advanced hybrid further and higher education institution. The merged institution, which bills itself as a "vocational...
The test aims to flag potential that school-leaving exams miss. But not all applicants to the hugely oversubscribed courses are cheering, says Brian Bloch
Aberdeen University has launched an ambitious fund-raising campaign to bring in Pounds 150 million in ten years. The "Sixth Century Campaign" has already won pledges of some Pounds 12 million towards...
Rethinking Ethnicity
Rising violence and a disintegrating criminal justice system signal the need for a new discipline aimed at treating offenders rather than at just judging and then punishing them, psychiatrists say...
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Anthea Millett explains the Teacher Training Agency's proposals for reform. The recent launch of a consultation paper on the future funding of initial teacher training met with a disappointing...
Anglo-Irish
Victims need the certainty that worries and complaints will be listened to and that investigations will be fair-minded, says Owen Bubbers-Jones
Recent confusion over The Lancet’s stance on green open access highlights the difficulty for support staff in preparing researchers for the new rules, says Alice Gibson
Shabana Mahmood, the shadow higher education minister, has said she is interested in exploring a "hybrid" funding system between tuition fees and a graduate tax as an alternative to current...
Will institutions be willing to invest in the spaces, technology and workload support required to effectively teach these methods? asks Amanda White
Annual survey of chief technology officers at US institutions reveals concerns about implications of AI but little enthusiasm for spending big on its potential
Annual meetings should be reimagined as spaces that enable connections – including with practitioners and the media, says Noam Schimmel
Bums-on-seats model ‘failing millions of Chinese’, conference hears