Category: Higher education

10/05/2017

Spectral authors also haunt the scientific canon. One physicist, frustrated at having his paper repeatedly rejected, finally saw it published…

02/05/2017

Higher education is an industry of the future — one in which the UK is a world-class player. Foreign universities…

24/04/2017

“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” — Marshall…

22/04/2017

Comment on an FT article. How things have changed. Even I can remember a colleague — a few years my…

17/04/2017

That’s a question I just got at our most recent all-hands meeting. I’ve been reminding people that it’s Day 1…

13/04/2017

Bruce Alberts talks a lot of sense about science education and education in general. And of course he produced a…

12/04/2017

Universities are idea factories. Current corporatization approaches emphasize the factory rather than the ideas. Ralf Buckley in Nature. I would…

10/04/2017

Given your past views on measuring quality in universities, what do you think of the teaching excellence framework, which the…

05/04/2017

‘I think we’re seeing the benefits of a good funding environment, and – to be frank – no research excellence…

03/04/2017

last month (, for example, when) the University of Copenhagen fired seismologist Hans Thybo, president of the European Geosciences Union.…