Fightback on feedback
Your anonymous opinion piece, "Maintain standards? That's way more than my job's worth" (17 March), reflects unease at the increasing volume of the "student voice" as a quality control instrument in...
Your anonymous opinion piece, "Maintain standards? That's way more than my job's worth" (17 March), reflects unease at the increasing volume of the "student voice" as a quality control instrument in...
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
It is that time of year again when those of us with pending funding applications make the trip to the office post room a little more often. I have been waiting on several responses, in common with...
"Students and tutors ready to embrace the Twitter bug" (26 March)? Certainly lecture audiences are, as I discovered when giving a talk in Florida last week.As I left the podium, the organiser handed...
New branding drops the words ‘College’ and ‘London’ from its title, leading union to raise concerns about focus on ‘pejorative historical connotations’
Collecting student feedback on courses and lecturers needs careful management to ensure accurate, and hopefully positive, data
GuildHE, the body representing higher education colleges, has called for "threshold" funding for institutions to support research capacity as part of any future approach to research assessment and...
Sir David Cooksey this week opened his consultation on the structure of the single ring-fenced health research fund announced in the Budget. Comments are invited by July 28 on the possible merger of...
Reports of the demise of university league tables are greatly exaggerated. Our rankings are growing in size and influence, writes David Watkins
As a woman concerned by gender inequality, I could be tolerated coming up to the elbows of the men in power, but not to their shoulders, says Pat O’Connor
The nature of the job differs dramatically depending on how one physically presents. Teaching support needs to catch up, says Hannah Kim
UK research funding urgently needs to become less onerous and less unfair if we don’t want applicants to simply give up, says Melvyn Smith
Online distance learning specialist blames old data as OfS identifies ‘absence of excellence’
We must research the impact of predicted grades on students’ well-being and learning behaviour at a critical stage in their education, says Luke Ellmers
With careful prompting, the AI can offer personalised tutoring that helps students understand where they need to go, says Dan Sarofian-Butin