Category: Higher education

13/09/2014

Scotland has 15 universities, while there are approximately 130 in the UK as a whole. Thus the percentage of research…

11/09/2014

When it comes to online learning, the University of Edinburgh, has become the most active and interesting HE institution in…

01/09/2014

“What we have right now is a reputational model for universities rather than an outcome model,” Romer says. “The presidents…

28/08/2014

Dartmouth, along with the other Ivies, ends up with most of its students crammed into three majors – pre-med, pre-law…

28/08/2014

This figure is from the MIT Task Force report on Education. What I find surprising is the lack of change.…

27/08/2014

The university bubble is also beginning to burst. Democratising universities has proved an expensive and inefficient way of providing mass…

25/08/2014

Profserious of ‘profserious: serious engineering’ agrees. People always seem to feign surprise when I say this. I then follow up…

13/08/2014

‘some faculty members will cry foul, claiming that teaching is simply not comparable to a piece of merchandise. But protestations…

30/07/2014

“We have to deliver value, and we’ve got to measure that value, and really adjusting the resources so we’re doing…

29/07/2014