Category: Higher education

14/07/2017

There have been a similar set of category errors in play this month over TEF. I can’t find a lot…

11/07/2017

This can be read as typical Silicon Valley hype, but I think it is more right than wrong. Just as…

10/07/2017

One key finding is that because interest rates on student debt are very high — up to 3 per cent…

07/07/2017

Interesting graphic from Audrey Watters on the bête noire, that is Pearson (especially if you are an investor). But although I…

05/07/2017

Of all the titles submitted to the 2014 research excellence framework, only “around a half in most subjects achieved at…

04/07/2017

A large part of Kahn’s legend rests on his fame as a pedagogue, and although his parallel teaching career was…

03/07/2017

If I had one criticism of Drezner’s otherwise excellent book, it is that his cure is thin gruel. He urges…

28/06/2017

Terrific interview with Alan Kay. Familiar memes, but I do not tire of them. The business of a university is…

23/06/2017

One of the important things I learned from reading Herb Simon’s ‘Models of my life’ was his view that seldom…

22/06/2017

Despite this, less than half of developers consider their formal education to be “important” or “very important” to their jobs.…