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Diary of a Third Year: Freebies are the only reason to attend a careers fair
By Duncan Robinson
Inside Higher
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.
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?
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.
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.
Students get new courses for the 21st century
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Aberdeen is the first British university to carry out a thorough review of what it teaches. But, asks Lucy Hodges, will the customers like it?
Bob Burgess: I hope student records make degree classes obsolete
Thursday, 5 November 2009
In the next academic year, many universities will pilot new records of student achievement that could replace our 200-year-old system of degree classification.
Universities are realising that a January start can hold many attractions
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Missed the September run? Don't panic, join the ever-expanding legion of second-semesterers. Does this sound familiar? You're on a summer holiday and while you're deep in an inspirational book you get the urge to change your destiny.
Diary Of A Third Year: 'The first year is wasted on freshers'
Thursday, 5 November 2009
I am only 21, but I feel like an old, old man. University does that to you. Nothing ages you quite like it. I arrived as a fresh-faced, optimistic teenager and will leave as a bearded and cynical twentysomething. In other words, I've become a student pensioner.
Why students want their universities to do better
Thursday, 5 November 2009
The body set up to sound out consumers is calling for lecturers to receive formal training and for all institutions to organise work placements.
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