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G-spot no longer blind

Steve Fuller urges us to judge the continued viability of proposals from the Robbins report in terms of the best exploitation of “human capital - or talent” (“Intellectual fruit of neoliberal seedbed...

Emperor's new Mooc

I find the renewed hype about online courses depressing: we’ve been here before. In his 2003 book The Flickering Mind, US journalist Todd Oppenheimer considers such courses to be less effective than...

Partners in pedagogy

I read with interest John Colley’s recent article “It’s got to be good” (Opinion, 10 October). While raising important issues, he misses the point on a number of levels.First, he falls into the...

Graded inequality

There was significant media coverage of the poor results recorded for the UK’s 16- to 25-year-olds under the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Programme for the International...

Unrewarding game of risk

John Gill asserts that in their research excellence framework preparations, “game-players” can “base the number of researchers submitted on the number of solid impact case studies they can detail -...

News in brief - 31 October 2013

IsraelBranch of peaceA US university is planning to open a branch campus in the Arab capital of Israel in a bid to bring Arabs and Jews together and to expand its overseas presence. John Sharp,...

The week in higher education - 31 October 2013

The London School of Economics and the BBC have locked horns once again after former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson turned up unannounced at a lecture with a cameraman making a...

News in brief - 31 October 2013

Wellcome TrustCash to unlock library’s richesThe Wellcome Trust has launched a £100,000 scheme to fund open access publication of research drawing on holdings in its library. Its extensive...

English: why the discipline may not be 'too big to fail'

Robert Eaglestone and Simon Kövesi ponder the problems that could sink the subject

Princes Charles jokes about Guardian at TV scholarships launch

The Prince of Wales owned up to “meddling” as he announced the launch of 20 new bursaries for students from less affluent backgrounds on television courses

GPA pilot takes off

Six Russell Group universities are among the 20 higher education institutions who will take part in a pilot of US-style degree classifications

Psychology taught through the medium of dance

Teaching complicated psychological constructs and statistical procedures to students can be a tough task at the best of times.

Willetts hopes funding adds up to improved numeracy

David Willetts has announced funding to address a “serious shortage of graduates with sufficient numeracy skills”.

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Employers "queuing up" for social science graduates

The excellent prospects for British graduates in the social sciences are highlighted in a new report released today