End audit culture
I welcome the chance to be assessed on my teaching through the teaching excellence framework: the quality of my teaching and my ability to engage and inspire students is something that I am very...
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Transparent aims
I’m afraid that James Naismith has it seriously wrong when he suggests that the higher education governance bill in front of Scotland’s Parliament is based on “solutions without problems, conclusions...
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Crass words
Whether research councils should spend money on art works to promote science is a fair question for discussion (“Simon Singh criticises wasteful spending in science outreach”, News, 13 October)....
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Exaggerated reports
When I started university teaching in 1971, experts both recommended and predicted the demise of the lecture. Your report shows that these experts are still around, and still without impact (“Lecture...
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Africa needs education, not exploitation
For-profit operators are needed to help feed the continent’s hunger for degrees but regulation is key
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World University Rankings 2015-2016 by subject: arts and humanities results
UK maintains its strength in the arts while US loses ground
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University of Leicester launches Department of Transtemporal Studies
Queen’s University Belfast and University of Sheffield also enter into the spirit of ‘Back to the Future Day’
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The prestige that attracts Chinese students to the UK is at risk
The UK’s strong higher education reputation has not been achieved by current policies, says Toby Miller
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UK university leaders lavish praise on Xi Jinping
As China's president visits the UK, heads of UCL, LSE and the Royal Society all warm to his slogan "the Chinese Dream"
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AC Grayling: why New College of the Humanities teamed up with Southampton Solent
Chris Parr reports as the philosopher talks of big plans for his fledgling institution
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Cut university budgets to fund FE? Skills education belongs in both
Policy Exchange’s report shows that damaging stereotypes of HE and FE persist, writes Joy Carter
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NUS ‘deeply disappointed’ by UUK stance on Osborne loan freeze
V-cs fail to oppose repayment threshold plan attacked as ‘unfair retrospective change’ by GuildHE
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Papers in economics ‘not reproducible’
Fears that discipline is particularly susceptible to statistical ‘hacking’ of data to gain a positive result