Higher
Diary Of A Third Year: Plagiarists and idlers - beware the power of the internet
Essays are the staple academic diet of most students. Their role in academic life hasn't changed in 50 years, but the way students write them certainly has.
Inside Higher
Leading Article: Bursary message
Thursday, 3 December 2009
We have an incredibly complicated system of financial help for students since the introduction of top-up fees, as the OFFA survey demonstrates. Students should be using information about bursaries to make up their minds which university to attend, but they are not, according to the evidence. Higher education institutions will clearly have to make a much more determined effort to get their messages across. They should also look at the impact their arrangements are having on student choice.
Study reveals lack of awareness over university bursaries and scholarships
Thursday, 3 December 2009
It is amazing but true that one quarter of students and parents have not heard of the bursaries that each university has to provide to students in need. So, three years after the controversial top-up fees were introduced, along with a complicated paraphernalia of loans and scholarships, thousands of students don't have the information they need to choose the institution that is best for them.
Are you clever enough for Oxbridge?
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
As would-be students prepare for pre-Christmas entrance interviews, John Farndon offers a cribsheet on those famously fiendish questions
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?
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