30 juillet 2017

British universities have been undergoing a transformation from being institutions bent on promoting scholarship and preserving civilised values into places bent on facilitating the cost-effective throughput of learning-receptor units who attend principally to purchase certified eduproduct: if nothing else, the unthinking adoption of soul-numbing management speak attests to that. More...

Evaluating academic performance on the basis of journal publications is skewing research priorities. This does our public funders a disservice. More...

Six out of 10 Britons want to keep their European Union citizenship after Brexit – including the rights to live, work, study and travel in the EU – and many would be prepared to pay large sums to do so, according to research led by the London School of Economics. More...

Many Dalit students regard university as a place of ridicule and abuse. Amrit Dhillon investigates the aftermath of two suicides and asks: is it time to make campus caste discrimination a criminal offence. More...

Open University says firms pay extra for recruitment, temps and inflating salaries and advises them to train their staff. More...

The Tef is an opportunity for universities to shift their focus from conducting research in ivory towers to giving all students the best experience. More...

Institutions embracing the government’s gold, silver and bronze ratings may find history quickly turning against them. More...

What critics fail, or refuse, to understand is that our charges actually improve access to higher education by allowing universities to offer more places. More...

A mother's perspective on her daughter's student debt, from Janet Moore and three ways in which graduates repay society with interest, listed by Bernard Moxham. More...

Thinktank says replacing maintenance grants in England hits students from lower-income households hardest. More...