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Liverpool data point to online postgrad boom

Massive increase in enrolment since 2007

You know the score

The Poppletonian article about music lyrics, assessment and feedback (26 September) brought to mind the Gershwin classic: “Summative and the learning is easy.”Michael CunninghamUniversity of...

Taste of our own medicine

The launch of FutureLearn is timely (“UK’s latecomer to Mooc party aims to cut some rug with social moves”, News, 19 September). Despite being the home of The Open University, the UK has seen the...

THE Scholarly Web - 3 October 2013

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Campus round-up - 3 October 2013

Source: AlamyRing of bright waterPhotographic proof has been found that otters have returned to a tributary of the River Thames in the South East of England. A PhD student at the University of Surrey...

Roderic Park, 1932-2013

A plant biologist and “Renaissance man” who played a key role in implementing major changes at the University of California, Berkeley has died

Laurence Coupe, Michael Patrick Cullinane, John Gilbey, Liz Gloyn and Richard Howells...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

High notes need to be balanced

The ‘golden triangle’ is a ringing success in the World University Rankings, but the UK needs every region to play its part

The week in higher education - 3 October 2013

“Bad boy” footballer Joey Barton has started a philosophy degree at the University of Roehampton, The Independent reported on September. The 31-year-old midfielder, who is back with Queens Park...

The crowd’s impact could stretch to funding

OU report dubbing 2013 the ‘year of the crowd’ pinpoints emerging technologies set to revolutionise sector

Credit notice: every little rejection helps

“Now you just fought one hell of a fightAnd I know you hate me, and you got the rightTo kill me now, and I wouldn’t blame you if you do.But ya ought to thank me, before I die,For the gravel in ya...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 3 October 2013

Shades of grey among the eBay ‘Lowrys’

Richard Howells’ online hunt for ‘masterpieces’ may be a playful act of irony, but it also questions the nature of artistic authenticity

‘We’re only here for the REF’

“I find your imputation extremely offensive.” That was how Brian Bryan, our Deputy Head of REF Strategy, responded to the suggestion from Poppletonian reporter Keith Ponting (30) that our university’...

Musings on Mortality: From Tolstoy to Primo Levi, by Victor Brombert

Robin Feuer Miller on an analysis of writers’ perceptions of death