I was a vice-chancellor for 20 years and regarded it as part of my brief to anticipate the next change in government policy and how to mitigate its effects on my university. In that I believe I was...
In The Idea of a University (1852), John Henry Newman reminded us of the danger of professional training in universities being absorbed by a narrow range of concerns. Building practical competence is...
After teaching in several schools, both in the UK and other developed countries, I moved into teacher training. My students were tutors who taught in fields as diverse as physics and policing.My...
David Willetts has announced that Aimhigher is to be abolished ("Black spots loom as Aimhigher shuts", 2 December). It isn't clear why this decision has been made, as the minister said he recognises...
John Field has proposed that Scottish academics should accept voluntary pay freezes to "help shore up the sector's finances" ("Seeking volunteers: scholars urged to take pay freeze to aid Scottish...
As a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, I was very disappointed to see Martin Griffiths, national coordinator for science journalism training at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), excuse the...
Recently, in an effort to procrastinate my way around a pile of university administration, I wrote three theatre reviews. The first was of the National Theatre's current production of Hamlet (1,800...
A soaring enrolment rate and a driving ambition to compete globally characterise higher education in South Korea. But how is this all-consuming desire affecting society? asks John Morgan
Mill, Smith and Friedman: look away now. Coalition plans to marketise the academy are a corruption of laissez-faire ideology. Martin Cohen lambasts a liberal approach to 'liberalism'
Duncan Wu applauds a nightmarish tale of a rock climber caught for five long days in a very hard place
Doorway to the world - With a fervour for knowledge, South Korea aims to take its place on the global stage
By Dan Berrett for Inside Higher Ed
By Dan Berrett for Inside Higher Ed
Although higher education has not been named a culprit in Ireland’s crisis, Anto Kerins thinks some serious soul-searching is in order
All Liberal Democrat ministers will vote in favour of the rise in tuition fees, but a number of backbenchers are likely to revolt.