By . Flemish government proposes rise despite student protests.
The majority of the approximately 230,000 undergraduates in the Dutch-speaking Belgian province will now pay €890 (£705), up from €619, in annual “inschrijvingsgeld” – registration charges that are effectively tuition fees. More...
By . Higher education legislation should be a priority for the new government after 2015, according to England’s funding council. More...
By . Public funding for universities should be scrapped and replaced by graduates paying an earnings levy to their institutions, according to a thinktank. More...
By . A business leader has said he is “appalled” to see universities end up as “victims of political point-scoring” and a “meaningless” migration target. More...
By . The abolition of student number controls presents a “unique opportunity” to increase the number of poorer students going into higher education.
Alan Milburn, the former Labour minister who chairs the coalition government’s social mobility commission, makes the argument in the commission’s latest annual report, published today. More...
By Melonie Fullick. I’m taking some time out in this post, to talk a bit self-indulgently about my approach to blogging – partly because I’m still asked pretty regularly about how and why I got started with writing a blog. I suppose it seems a bit random; this still isn’t really a common activity in academic circles, so it’s not something most people think about doing. On a related note, I’m genuinely surprised to find that this blog is a finalist (for the third time, even!) in its category in the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. So that’s prodded me to ponder how I ended up “here”, as it were. Read more...
By Jennifer Polk - From PhD to Life. “How’s business?” I was asked this by a fellow panelist at an event I recently participated in. “Good!” I responded, and then added my usual caveat: “I’m not yet covering my expenses but I’m getting there.” Reflecting on this now, I want to go back in time and change my answer. Why? TBU. This acronym (thanks Ian) stands for “true but useless.” I let one of my inner critics speak for me. More...
By David Kent. Earlier this month, I was gobsmacked when a colleague told me of their paper’s afternoon journey from submission to acceptance in a peer-reviewed journal. Not only was this a lightning fast acceptance, but it was the paper’s first submission, i.e., it had never been through peer review. It was received by the editor, read by the editor and accepted by the editor all within a four-hour time frame – and now it’s online as a Letter to the Editor. More...
By Pearce J. Carefoote and Deborah Whiteman. Why special collections can be transformative to the student.
Most of us are well aware that the current generation of incoming undergraduates is the most technologically savvy of any that has gone before it. Never has a group of students had so much information available to them, instantaneously and literally at their fingertips. And yet, over the past dozen years we librarians at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto have been asked by professors to go “old school” and provide sessions for them on the role of primary sources and how to use them in academic research. More...
By Natalie Samson. Disquieting art installation has toured several university campuses since 2011.
This fall at the University of Saskatchewan, dozens of red dresses hung loosely from railings, windows and ceilings in campus buildings, and swayed in trees around the campus green known as the Bowl. These weren’t the aspirational party dresses of shop windows or the slinky frocks of fashion magazines, but a public art installation called the REDress Project. The dresses served as an ominous reminder of Canada’s missing and murdered Aboriginal women. More...
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