Category: Higher education

16/02/2017

Nice piece in ‘Science’ with the title: ‘No easy answers: What does it mean to ask whether a prekindergarten math…

15/02/2017

As one Credit Suisse analyst looking at the $35 billion industry put it, “it’s hard not to make a profit”…

14/02/2017

Employers outside academia place no financial value on skills or training acquired through a postdoc position, the study says. Quoted…

10/02/2017

Not so long ago, at an internal meeting, the message was ‘things are tough for this year, and next, but…

07/02/2017

It was reading Herb Simon’s ‘Sciences of the Artificial’ that woke me up what some professional schools had in common.…

03/02/2017

From Audrey Watters excellent round up of the year that was: I think it’s safe to say, for example, that…

01/02/2017

More worrying is the role of scoring in these judgments. For decades educationists have tried to assess the output of…

31/01/2017

“I miss the 1990’s sometimes. People had no expectations, and so they thought bigger.” Nice line in an article by…

25/01/2017

There are many worthwhile insights on show in the THE interview with the Nobel physicist Saul Perlmutter, ‘You can't order…

13/01/2017

At the risk of raising the ire of many researchers, I should note that I am not basing my assessment…