Category: Higher education

06/06/2018

According to the job description for the chair of modern Greek studies posted last month, whoever fills the professorship part-funded…

25/05/2018

Business schools are being reinvigorated by the apprenticeship levy, with 40 out of 113 universities creating specific MBA courses to…

13/04/2018

(Isaiah)Berlin had learned that if you studied them with philosophical intent, certain second-rate minds grappling with first-rate problems could teach…

10/04/2018

A Wonke podcast well worth listening to featuring Matt Robb of EY Parthenon on higher education. I think it will…

03/04/2018

Restaurants have also lagged behind retailers in offering “experiences”, as the trade jargon has it, rather than the usual broccoli.…

02/04/2018

Universities are certainly putting their courses online. The question is “why?” I talked last week with a University President whom…

23/03/2018

Nice article in the FT. It is about the increasing use of capital markets by UK universities, and the deal…

16/03/2018

Dr. Santos speculated that Yale students are interested in the class because, in high school, they had to deprioritize their…

15/03/2018

"The relationship of the individual student to their university is an unusual one. In Western higher education, for a long…

14/03/2018

On the: Office for students (OfS). We learned last week that not only was DfE’s compliance with the Commissioner’s requests woeful,…