Category: Higher education

22/02/2016

Andrew Oswald in the THE ‘A key purpose of a PhD is to destroy a young person’s ability to enjoy…

21/02/2016

From an article in this week's Economist: 1:4 students live in purpose built halls of residence in 2006, 82% were…

18/02/2016

Nice post from Donald Clark:10 ways MOOCs have forced Universities into a rethink. One morsel of clickbait, which just happens to be…

15/02/2016

I had thought I ‘got’ Open as in terms of OER, Creative commons and the like, but clearly I am…

29/01/2016

There is an article in the FT highlighting the woes of Pearson, and the wisdom of selling the FT and the Economist.…

25/01/2016

One theme in what might happen to higher education is unbundling, so that for example certification might not be  provided by…

25/01/2016

I was on a plane from Amsterdam yesterday, sitting next to a particle physicist, after a trip to Zurich for…

19/01/2016

"The leading institutions speak to the best candidates; the rest to anyone they think they can get. “There’s no point…

18/01/2016

“A very simple explanation is: In corporate, they have money” Many big companies also pay for corporate learning services to…

17/01/2016

Interview with Louise Richardson, in the Guardian. She says some interesting things. “I think the vice-chancellor or president of any university…