The study of land-based industries, such as farming, countryside management and animal rearing - includes agriculture, forestry, food and beverage studies. More...
Oxford and Cambridge university colleges hold £21bn in riches
Britain’s ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge have access to a staggering pool of wealth totalling almost £21bn, analysis by the Guardian has revealed. More...
The Guardian view on digitising culture: make manuscripts more illuminating
We live in an age of instant images and memes, when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more that the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. More...
Students are at breaking point in a broken system
I too have a daughter who, though creative and gifted, cannot do squiggles on paper, has spent 12 years of her life learning that she’s “thick” and “useless” and is about to sit – and likely fail – her GCSE maths for the third time. More...
A worrying lack of pastoral care for Russell Group undergraduates
Thirty-eight years ago I left a Russell Group university, where I met my tutor regularly, had seminars four times a week and was known by the teaching staff. As one of a very few students from a comprehensive school background, this made the experience manageable. More...
Swansea to Newcastle: the offshore ownership of student blocks
Undergraduates are being offered rooms in upmarket developments that can sound more like hotels than student digs, where gyms, superfast wifi and plush shared kitchens now go hand in hand with the usual desk, bed and bookshelves. More...
Revealed: the developers cashing in on privatisation of student housing
Tens of thousands of undergraduates are paying for accommodation at universities where developers are cashing in on the privatisation of student housing using offshore companies, a Guardian investigation has found. More...
États-Unis : Les prêts étudiants peuvent-ils augmenter sans fin ?
Depuis le début 2008 jusqu’à maintenant le montant total des prêts étudiants est passé de 481 milliards USD à 1 521 milliards début 2018, soit une multiplication par 3,16. Plus...
Comment la globalisation bouleverse l’université
En France, cette globalisation de l’enseignement supérieur est d’abord européenne et a commencé avec le processus de Bologne, lancé en 1998, ayant pour but de faire de l’espace européen de l’enseignement supérieur, un système « d’économie de la connaissance la plus compétitive et la plus dynamique du monde ». Plus...
La société apprenante, un impératif démocratique
Il peut sembler trivial de dire que la démocratisation de l’éducation et de la connaissance doit être une priorité politique. La circulation et l’échange de savoirs, la promotion et la diffusion de la science ne font cependant pas l’unanimité. Partout en Europe, aux États-Unis et ailleurs, la société apprenante, pour paraphraser Karl Popper qui parlait des ennemis de la « société ouverte », a ses adversaires. Plus...