By . Northumbria University is to become the latest UK institution to open a campus in London as it tries to increase international student numbers. The programmes will be offered in partnership with QA Ltd, a firm that provides training courses at 25 locations across the UK and Ireland. More...
By . Research funders worried about high open access fees charged by “hybrid” journals could refuse to pay fees above a set threshold, a report suggests. The report, commissioned by a group of funders including the Wellcome Trust, Research Councils UK, Jisc and Research Libraries UK, examines the effectiveness of market forces in driving down open access article fees. More...
By . The government will not increase the value of the higher education innovation fund, it announced today. Sir Andrew Witty called for the boost in innovation funding in his review of universities and growth issued last year.
He argued that increasing the fund to £250 million a year would incentivise universities to work with small and medium-sized businesses. It is currently worth £160 million. More...
By Graeme Paton. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) says drastic action is needed to force more students – particularly women – to study traditional subjects, insisting skills shortages risk putting a "brake on the economic recovery". Women take up just 15.5 per cent of jobs in science, technology, engineering and maths, according to the CBI. Universities should be required to set “diversity targets” to recruit more women into traditional subjects to address a gender divide at the heart of the education system, according to Britain’s biggest business group. A major report from the Confederation of British Industry will call for drastic measures to boost the number of girls studying disciplines such as physics and maths to a high standard. Read more...
By Graeme Paton. A study by Manchester University finds that adults from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to be educated to degree level than their white British counterparts. Adults from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to be educated to a high standard than their white British peers, according to research.
Figures show they are significantly more likely to hold a degree and less likely to have no qualifications at all than their white counterparts. People from the best-qualified group – Chinese – were around 75 per cent more likely to be university educated than those identified as white British. The study by Manchester University also found that many ethnic minorities had seen bigger overall improvements in education standards over the last 20 years. Read more...
By Helen Thorne. Over the past eight weeks, admissions tutors across the UK have been scrutinising applications; now's the time to think about your offers, says Helen Thorne. Spring has arrived; which means that the crucial stage of the Ucas process - where students need to reply to their university and college offers - is just around the corner. Over the past eight weeks, admissions tutors across the UK have been going through all the applications they received by the January deadline. They’ve been deciding who to invite to interview and, most importantly, which students they’ll be making offers to. Read more...
By David Ellis. One big rule of dissertation writing - never discuss your progress with friends. David Ellis explores some of the big lessons you'll learn as you write. All hail the dissertation. While they’re painful, prickly things with a bad habit of growing to alarming lengths, they teach some of the finest lessons one could hope to learn. Read more...
By Graeme Paton. Companies warn over the shortage of skilled graduates as The Telegraph launches its new UK STEM Awards designed to reward the best undergraduates studying science, technology, engineering and maths. Industry is being starved of highly-skilled workers because of a shortage in the number of teenagers studying subjects such as science and maths to a high level, business leaders warned today. Companies are facing a crippling “skills gap” as tens of thousands of engineers retire without finding well-trained apprentices and graduates to replace them, it was claimed. Read more...
By Graeme Paton. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) warns that universities are failing to supply students with enough information before they apply, but finds no evidence of 'fee fixing' between institutions. Universities are failing to ensure students have access to vital information before applying to degree courses, according to the trading watchdog.A report by the Office of Fair Trading found "significant gaps" in perspectuses handed to students, including the. Read more...By Maureen Mancuso. It’s one way for institutions to become sustainable. A number of Canadian universities are engaged in a Program Prioritization Process (PPP). Others are contemplating related initiatives. As with any significant trend that involves change to traditional ways, anticipation leads to legitimate questions but also to sloPPPy thinking. There are a lot of myths about just what PPP is, many of them straw-man distortions of what the process actually involves. My university just completed the first and most attention-getting part of such a process – the ranking of programs – so I feel well- placed to state what PPP is and is not. More...
/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
