by EH | Nov 6, 2013 | Government, Uncategorized
By Peter Scott, trustee of CDBU and Professor of Higher Education Studies at the Institute of Education Fifty years ago this autumn the Robbins report on higher education in the United Kingdom was published. It was, and still is, the greatest report on higher...
by EH | Nov 5, 2013 | Government, Uncategorized
Podcasts of the conference sessions from ‘Shaping higher education fifty years after Robbins’ that took place on 22 October 2013 at LSE, are now online including the conference programme and the speakers’ powerpoint presentations, available here. A podcast and video...
by EH | Nov 5, 2013 | Government, Uncategorized
Novelist and academic JM Coetzee’s foreword to University of Cape Town fellow Professor John Higgins’s new book, taken from the Mail & Guardian Thank you for letting me see your essays on academic freedom in South Africa. The general question you...
by EH | Nov 1, 2013 | Humanities, Uncategorized
Daniel Allington is a lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics at the Open University. The piece below is taken from his blog: http://www.danielallington.net As we all know, the digital humanities are the next big thing. A couple of years ago, I gave a...
by EH | Nov 1, 2013 | REF, Uncategorized
For the research excellence framework, academics now have to think hard about the effect of their work outside academia, says Jonathan Wolff, professor of philosophy at UCL. Not long left now. Just a few more weeks and someone in each university around the country...
