Ucas: discerning with data
One of the things that most engaged me about working at Ucas was understanding the true potential of the data collected every year through the admissions service. Decades of records charting the...
One of the things that most engaged me about working at Ucas was understanding the true potential of the data collected every year through the admissions service. Decades of records charting the...
The letter discussing the teaching excellence framework and teaching qualifications (“TEF: to keep it simple would be stupid”, 20 August) is a welcome addition to the debate. The timetable for the...
Ormond Simpson’s letter says that in 2006 it had been possible to forecast the likely success of a new student entering the Open University, although this system was never used (“What are the chances...
I am quite shocked that the number of “ghost” authors is so high and that there are therefore a significant number of academics who are cutting out graduate students and postdocs from receiving...
I was delighted to see from the Poppletonian (27 August) that the interview panel had learned one thing from their diversity training, as the obvious question – “Miss De Beauvoir, I wonder if you...
There is a lot of useful process advice in the 10 steps to a successful, or unsuccessful, PhD (“10 steps to PhD failure”, Features, 27 August). However, in the era of liberal education, I still...

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Graduates of Russell Group institutions were the least likely to be unemployed three and a half years after leaving university, with just 1.7 per cent falling into this category, figures show

A bid to reproduce key studies is less a tale of failure than of researchers’ willingness to put their own practices to the test

UKVI takes action against one of England’s largest private colleges

Glen Wright, from Academia Obscura, peeks inside a Pandora’s box of scholarly microblogging

Computing, maths and business management in line for ‘rationalisation’ as spending cuts hit institution

Luister details alleged discrimination against black students at leading institution