Category: Higher education

14/10/2018

OBJECTIVES “Results from end‐of‐course student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are taken seriously by faculties and form part of a decision…

11/10/2018

The business of academic publishing: “a catastrophe” - The Lancet How is it that publishers can continue to make profits…

10/10/2018

Paul Romer and William Nordhaus, were awarded this year’s ‘Nobel’ for economics. I first came across Romer in the David…

07/10/2018

It is easy to make facile comparisons between universities,  publishing, and the internet. But it is useful to explore the…

05/10/2018

If Scotland offers a lesson in how to shift the behaviour of a higher education system at speed without resorting…

02/10/2018

Joe plays guitar in a metal band – averagely well for a 20-year-old – and is enrolled on a music…

25/09/2018

“I have been seriously attempting to raise money to carry out this science education effort ever since the Nobel Prize…

19/09/2018

This is essentially about the importance of the ‘Long Now’. What’s the point of scholarly academies? | Times Higher Education…

12/09/2018

Is identity politics ruining democracy? | Financial Times School leavers and manual workers have propelled Britain into Brexit and Donald…

11/09/2018

USS crisis: can the pension system be reformed? | Times Higher Education (THE) As such, the 2004 Pensions Act is…