Grammar schools: the personal ends up political
UK prime minister May’s schools and higher education policymaking relies on anecdote and politicians’ own experience, not evidence
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Grant winners – 15 September 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Life with an abusive lab boss: one postdoc’s story
Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss’ abuse
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Could refusal to reveal graduate premium lead to a fraud charge?
David Palfreyman considers how secretiveness about the benefits a graduate might expect might fall foul of trading regulations
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More money needed on student mental health
Event debates how counselling teams can cope with increasing mental health problems among learners
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The internationalisation of higher education in Mexico
América M. Lizárraga González charts the progress being made towards embedding an international approach in Mexican universities
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Science communication efforts require strategic engagement
Funding bodies must foster a long-term vision for public awareness if research is to gain a place in the cultural mainstream, say Sam Illingworth and Andreas Prokop
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Parents have a right to attend open days
As a parent of a child who has jointly attended several open days during this university application cycle, I find it disturbing that Mary Curnock Cook, the chief executive of Ucas, has any role to...
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Save the Vaughan
In my decade as a lecturer and director of studies at the University of Leicester (1997-2007), the vice-chancellor – Sir Robert Burgess – regularly trumpeted the achievements of Vaughan College, the...
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Essential analytics
As a country, we are a globally recognised centre of excellence for education, and UK institutions have long held much-deserved top spots in university league tables. We at Jisc are determined to do...
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TEF: a useless task
In the early 1950s, I was a chemistry undergraduate in one of the best departments in the country. The lecturing was mostly awful and tutorials non-existent, but academic standards were very high,...
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OECD: countries’ fees must not ‘skyrocket’ past ‘price limit’
Education at a Glance report brings warning from director for education, who also says US private fees bear ‘no relationship’ to quality