Influential Times guide to best universities passes with honours
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The Times produces the most highly regarded guide to universities,
according to a report presented to vice-chancellors.
University leaders said that The
Times Good University Guide, edited by John OLeary, was the most
influential of its kind. It is also the oldest, having begun in 1992.
The report,
commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, said
that such league table [...]
Take a step forward
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Soldiers, obviously. Engineers, fair enough. But marketers, accountants and
sociologists really?
%26ldquo;The defence sector has a strong demand for graduates… but people are still
only very vaguely aware of whats available, says Dr Charlie Ball, lead
researcher at the Higher Education Careers Services Unit. %26ldquo;Its a very wide
industry and an important part of the economy. A lot of our [...]
Get a BA (2 for 1) at Tesco
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DEGREES designed to widen higher education are to become available from Tesco.
The supermarket chain is to offer its own qualification in retail management,
including the arts of display design, special offers and efficient shelf
stacking. Teenagers may soon be able to study vocational courses to A-level
standard at McDonalds, a scheme announced in January, before going to Tesco
for [...]
Universities should be more open about admission rules
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Universities will have to become more transparent about how they select students, a government minister is due to say today.John Denham, the Universities Secretary, will say that all higher education institutions must develop clear access policies. He is addressing the annual conference of the Higher Education Funding Council for England about attempts to achieve a [...]
The wealth divide expands
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Higher education is becoming a tale of two sectors as the gap between rich and
poor widens in a time of plenty, Times Higher Education (April 3)
reports this week.
And the division between elite Russell Group universities and the rest is
likely to increase further as the richer borrow more to improve staff and
student facilities.
Figures extracted by the [...]
Stein Stumps For State Education Law Change
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Instead of taking on President Bush and the automotive, health care and gun industries, Stein is taking on the vast world of academia in a new documentary. It challenges Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution with intelligent design, the belief that the world and man were created by an intelligent designer God.
“We’ve been troubled by the [...]
Tuition hike will push cost of attending U. of I. past 20000 for new undergrads this fall
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The increase equates to an average of about 3.7 percent per year.Students in some programs, however, will pay more. Journalism students will pay an extra $700 a year. Engineering and business students will pay $4,152 more. Fine and applied arts students will pay an additional $1,200. Related expenses such as transportation, supplies and books can [...]
Study Record for college earmarks
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Congress approved 2,306 earmarks last year for higher education, compared with 223 in 1990, The Chronicle said. The earmarks included several centers honoring legislators. Among these was a $1.9 million grant to help create the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York. Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House [...]
Universities fear imminent student drought
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The number of school leavers is expected to plummet over the next 10 years, leaving 70,000 university places unfilled - the equivalent of nearly six universities.Universities will have to compete harder, target more mature students and those from outside the EU to fill seats in lecture halls as a historic dip in the birth rate [...]
Financial settlement disappoints Scottish universities
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Scotland’s universities shared a tight budget settlement this week, with institutions that have excelled in research and knowledge transfer benefitting the most, while three of the country’s newer universities have seen a marked downturn in their research funding.The cash from the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC), announced today, comes against a backdrop [...]
