Higher

IF YOU'RE NOT IN CALIFORNIA, HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT EXISTS? (GEOGRAPHY, OXFORD)

Are you clever enough for Oxbridge?

As would-be students prepare for pre-Christmas entrance interviews, John Farndon offers a cribsheet on those famously fiendish questions

Inside Higher

Andrew Oswald: REF should stay out of the game

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Comment

Scandal of the students who never sat exams

Thursday, 26 November 2009

London Metropolitan University has to repay an unprecedented £36.5m because of poor record-keeping. How many other institutions are in the same boat, asks Lucy Hodges

Leading Article: Lessons to learn

Thursday, 26 November 2009

London Metropolitan University's governors must conclude from Sir David Melville's report (see page 5) that they should have built in mechanisms to ensure they were properly informed. As it was, they didn't know what was going on.

Diary of a Third Year: Freebies are the only reason to attend a careers fair

Thursday, 19 November 2009

By Duncan Robinson

Time to wave goodbye to old-fashioned lecture notes

Thursday, 19 November 2009

When a lecturer made a video of himself marking essays, the world of academia realised he was on to something.

Leading Article: Oxbridge rules

Thursday, 19 November 2009

We should not be surprised that Oxford and Cambridge universities are so superior when compared to all others, including the highly-rated LSE, Imperial and UCL.

Meet the new nurses on £54,000

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Why has the idea that nurses should be better qualified sparked such a fierce debate?

Terence Kealey: Beware of selling your soul to the knowledge economy

Thursday, 19 November 2009

In an article I wrote in this space on the 21 June 2007 in the week Brown became Prime Minister ("We Should Be Very Afraid of Gordon Brown"), I said: "Brown respects only business people and the City, and he treats public servants as public serfs." As the PM was to show by his response to the credit crunch (he showered the City with money but is now preparing the public sector for cuts) that wasn't a bad prediction of his actions in Number 10.

Leading Article: Good start for fees review

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Lord Mandelson has managed to secure an impressive line-up for his review of university funding, which is expected to recommended that top-up fees be increased. Lord Browne, who spent his life in BP, rising from lowly graduate recruit to CEO, is widely admired for his expertise and will be ably supported, among others, by Sir Michael Barber, the former head of Tony Blair's delivery unit, the economist Diane Coyle, formerly of this newspaper, and Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University and one of the cleverest minds in higher education. Moreover he has managed to keep the NUS happy by including a young person, Ranjay Naik, who used be on the English Secondary Students Association.