US policymakers should not overlook the positive aspects of for-profit colleges, a study has argued.The report from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a right- leaning thinktank based in...
Australia’s united front offers lessons for the UK, forum hears. David Matthews reports
United StatesHoly trinityA US accreditation body has approved the merger of two faith colleges with a university. The Higher Learning Commission gave the go-ahead for the Assemblies of God...
Research paints picture of permanent revolution in sector since mid-1990s. Jack Grove reports
This letter, signed by Charles de Gaulle, was sent to Michael D. Jones, founder of the Welsh colony in Patagonia in the 1860s, and now forms part of the archives at Bangor University devoted to the...
Union defends LSE’s ‘academic annex’ against management plans for reform. Jack Grove reports
MoocsAnd NovoEd makes threeA third massive open online course platform developed by academics from Stanford University has been launched. Following in the footsteps of Coursera and Udacity, NovoEd,...
Lecturers often moan that student radicals have disappeared, but a few could be found at Maggie’s Good Riddance Party, a protest organised by Dominic Francis, a student at Ruskin College in Oxford,...
Among the factors that make students (and others) happy is community, hard as it may be to measure
Informal group admits reform requires more work than previously thought. Elizabeth Gibney reports
The government’s “very radical” policy to slash direct public funding for teaching in English higher education is seen by the rest of the world as “completely bonkers”, according to the head of...
Robert Gordon v-c critiques traditional rationale for scholarly activity. David Matthews writes
Boston, one of the global capitals of higher education, was thrown into chaos last week after bombers targeted the city’s marathon, sparking a manhunt that ended in further violence. Our US...