Excellent healthcare has clinical research pulsing in its veins
The junior doctor contract not only deters the lab work that leads to breakthroughs, it threatens quality of care, argues Amitava Banerjee
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Spoc: to boldly go where no course has gone before
To aid non-traditional students, David Burns built a ‘Spoc’, a digital course where an academic is always on call
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Ucas tariff is on point
Tim Gill, the research officer at Cambridge Assessment who says that the Ucas tariff system overvalues both the International Baccalaureate and vocational BTECs, misunderstands the Ucas tariff (“IB...
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Hefce’s agents
In her letter on the Higher Education Funding Council for England making higher education policy by blog, Gill Evans quotes Susan Lapworth as saying that, for Hefce, “it’s not particularly helpful to...
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Standards deviation
Whether or not the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s new system for quality assessment will be less burdensome is very much up in the air at present (“Our plans for quality assessment...
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Happy to comply
I think that the University of Edinburgh’s plan to have campus staff report their whereabouts to managers when they leave their “normal place of work” for a morning or afternoon is a very positive...
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Evaluator victor
As a coordinator of one of the sub-groups evaluating research in Italy’s present VQR (“Evaluation of Research Quality”), I can assure the UK public that our evaluation procedure is alive and well (“...
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How Germany regained the fast lane
With targeted help from the government, the country’s universities have reasserted their quality and regained their global standing
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First non-STEM Athena SWAN winners named
Durham, Edinburgh and Queen’s University Belfast pick up inaugural awards for arts, humanities and social science departments
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Graduate debt ‘higher in England than in US’
Sutton Trust report warns that finding is ‘cause for concern’
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Africa Summit 2016: proper credit is 'boosting African research'
But the vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana says academics must still 'push' for recognition
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I’m a university teacher clawing my way back to the middle class
How can it be that experienced, full-time lecturers teaching huge classes at Canadian universities can be on such low salaries that they officially qualify as “poor”?, asks Andrew W. Robinson