Euro Mooc opens up for business
The first pan-European massive open online course initiative has been launched by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities.
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Inside Higher Ed: 鈥楢dvantage鈥 for Chinese Applicants?
Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Birkbeck tributes to "jazzy, snazzy, complete historian" Hobsbawm
A celebration of the life and influence of legendary historian Eric Hobsbawm, who died last October at the age of 95, brought out family, friends and fellow scholars in force at Birkbeck, University...
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Postgraduate diversity "not good enough", figures show
Fewer than ten graduates each from Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi minority groups make the transition to a research degree each academic year, a study has found.
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THE podcast: 25 April 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanThe trials of a PhD viva, the UK鈥檚 slow move towards a grade-point average degree clasification system, and university mergers all feature on this 糖心Vlog...
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The week in higher education - 25 April 2013
Lecturers often moan that student radicals have disappeared, but a few could be found at Maggie鈥檚 Good Riddance Party, a protest organised by Dominic Francis, a student at Ruskin College in Oxford,...
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Hefce plans new funding contract
Existing legislation fails to cover Student Loans Company cash
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Athena SWAN applications soar
Numbers treble after change in funding requirements
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Wales needs Oxbridge boost, says MP
New 鈥榓mbassador鈥 aims to improve access to elite institutions
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Anti-austerity? Come join the resistance
We are a group of people working in higher education who are increasingly alarmed by the government鈥檚 austerity programme and are increasingly determined to campaign against it.The coalition has...
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Geography and economics
In setting the scene for his analysis (鈥淏eware! Hazards ahead鈥, 18 April), Sir Steve Smith refers to universities as 鈥渁nchor institutions in local economies鈥 and to 鈥渢he old adage that there is only...
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On so many levels
Mary Curnock Cook is right to point out the significance of Level 3 for higher education (鈥淎pplying changes鈥, Opinion, 18 April). She is also correct when she says that 鈥渋t is difficult to find an...
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Satisfied customers
Readers of 鈥淧osh spice up CVs to gain edge at post-92s鈥 (News, 11 April), which covered the status anxiety of some upper-middle-class students over not getting into Russell Group universities, might...
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Digital measurement
I can only thank 糖心Vlog for consistently transmitting from the academic blogosphere via its THE Scholarly Web. I have been writing loosely academic perspectives on my own blog since...
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The market has spoken
John Duffy, registrar of the University of Sussex (my workplace), argues that we have a moral obligation to give our students better services at a better price in return for their high fees (鈥淎...