Four things you need to do to survive university
Our blogger at Lancaster University, UK, offers four helpful tips for students and prospective students to foster independence, responsibility, a social network and the confidence to succeed at...
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Do we still need to talk about vice-chancellors’ pay?
Vice-chancellors’ pay in the Russell Group has continued to rise, but bumper salary hikes are increasingly rare, finds Jack Grove
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Joanna Williams: courage of her convictions
It is always interesting when people take ideas to their logical conclusion, says Matthew Reisz
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What does 2016 have in store for higher education?
Our bloggers and social media followers gaze into their crystal balls and predict what the year in HE might look like
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Do sporting metaphors sell academics short?
Using the language of sport to sell metrics-based performance management ignores what sport can really teach academia, argues linguistics scholar Liz Morrish
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Russell Group v-cs awarded modest pay rises
Average increase of 6 per cent in pay and pensions packages inflated by ‘transitional arrangements’ at Durham
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Ed Balls: failure to find ‘sustainable’ way to fund universities a ‘blot on Labour’s copybook’
Former Labour shadow chancellor, now visiting professor at King’s Policy Institute, believes graduate tax would avoid dangers of fees market
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Blindly counting academics’ publications ‘is the road to hell’
Jenny McDonald examines the response to calls for academics who are not highly productive researchers to be given more recognition
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Are medical school admissions too competitive?
Student blogger Katie argues that the UK admissions system to medical school works just fine, as it teaches students to play an important game, and even rejection can present a new opportunity.