White students gain less from higher education, UK Engagement Survey suggests
Black, Chinese and Asian undergraduates report highest level of skill development

Black, Chinese and Asian undergraduates report highest level of skill development

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

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A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Too many senior scholars abuse their power when it comes to assigning credit, argues Bruce Macfarlane
To our great dismay, Nick Rushby has stepped down as editor of the British Journal of Educational Technology. The basis for his decision lies in a conflict between him as editor (together with much...
Public engagement in the UK is stuck in the doldrums and fails to recognise that the world’s most intractable problems can be tackled only by building collaborations between people with different...
“You asked, we listened” is a slogan promoted to students by London Metropolitan University’s vice-chancellor, John Raftery. We hope he is listening now because the students’ union, at its recent...
We would like to draw attention to the recent suspension of recruitment to person-centred counselling courses at the University of Strathclyde. The counselling unit is world-leading in its field and...

To measure this key graduate outcome, we must better understand what it is, what it is not and what it could be, argues Johnny Rich