Seeing as Oxbridge students haven't been up to anything offensive, racist or crass recently, the papers have got a bit bored and have headed north of the border to give some public schoolboys a hard time.
Students at the University of St. Andrews - well, some of the male ones - have a tradition of...
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Policy Exchange have released a report arguing that universities should be allowed to fail if in debt. Duncan Robinson argues that, although the principle is sound, the report misses the point.
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Every university course has a student stereotype. Archaeology students are generally imagined as overweight, bearded and with a love for death metal. The English student, meanwhile, tends to have a penchant for skinny jeans, skinny scarves and Jarvis Cocker spectacles. Engineering students, however, are seen as such social incompetents that they have to be...
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It's never a good time for bosses to reveal massive pay rises for themselves. But the timing of this particular story takes the biscuit.
After grudgingly giving staff a pay rise of, on average around 5.7%, it turns out Vice-Chancellors last year received a pay increase of 9%. Oh dear.
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Over at the Sheffield Uni Occupation blog they have a big long list of successful University occupations. I stand well and truly corrected. I was barking up the wrong tree with this post. It was simply a 'total lie' - something I realised when confronted with the overwhelming evidence offered by the Occupiers.
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The University of Sheffield has been occupied by students! How. Retro. Can. You. Get. A group of forty or so students are currently ensconced in the Hicks building’s lecture halls, snuggling down for the night. Sprinting after a bandwagon that is now quite far in the distance, they are protesting Israeli actions in Gaza...
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There's a big hoo-hah over the new A* grade at A-level - and it's all over nothing. The new grade is meant to distinguish between very clever teenagers and fantastically clever teenagers. Basically, if you get over 90% in your A2 year, you get an A* and a big sticker saying NERD.
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The RAE has not been kind to Russell Group universities. Every single member of the group has experienced a reduction in the amount of research funding per researcher for their 2009-10 allocation. This amounts to £6,000 per researcher. Ouch. Read more here.
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At the beginning of the year, two of Britain’s great institutions join forces. In an unprecedented move The University of Chichester and Butlins came together to offer a degree in becoming a Redcoat. A quick glance at a Redcoats alumni list shows Michael Barrymore, Darren Day and H from Steps all started life as...
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