Measures to promote race equality in higher education have had very “little impact”. Speaking at the British Sociological Association’s annual conference in April, Andrew Pilkington, professor of sociology at University of Northampton, said the impact of race equality initiatives in… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘higher education’
£9,000… and the costs keep rising
With the tuition fees price hike around the corner, thousands of students across the country have boycotted lectures in a campaign of action organised by the NUS. The protest is part of the NUS’s fight against the government’s higher education… Read More ›
Decrease in poorer students and women applying to university
Early indications suggest that applications from female students and those from poorer backgrounds have fallen ahead of the higher tuition fees next year. According to the first round of Ucas application figures, applications from men were down by 7% compared… Read More ›
Do you hate e-mail? I do. Can’t universities think of smarter ways to communicate internally?
There was a time when I enjoyed e-mail. Before my PhD, e-mail had been largely peripheral to my life and something that was simply a back-up when other options weren’t available. Yet suddenly in my first year, it became ever… Read More ›
Predicted drop in students applying for university places
The number of UK-born university applications for 2012 university entry has dropped by almost 12%. This figure is not surprising as September 2012 sees tuition fees rise to up to £9,000 a year. The first set of statistics on applications… Read More ›
To the international academic community – Public Greek Universities in Danger
In the last few years, a wave of ‘reforms’ within the European Union and throughout the world has subjected Higher Education to the logic of the market. Higher Education has increasingly been transformed from a public good and a civil… Read More ›
From learning to earning – the changing ethos of English Higher Education
The publication of the White Paper on Higher Education emphatically entitled ‘Students at the Heart of the System’ opens the doors to one of the most radical transformations in the UK education system. The perverse and socially destructive potential of… Read More ›
Steve Fuller on the Impact Agenda
In this podcast Mark Carrigan discusses the impact agenda with Steve Fuller. The discussion encompasses the history of impact, its relationship to wider issues in higher education, existing academic responses to the impact agenda and strategic alternatives.
The (lost) soul of the post-92 Universities
The long-term effects of the cuts to Humanities and Social Science subjects are now starting to surface, especially for the Universities that are not part of the Russell Group. In a recent article, Professors Gavin Poynter and Michael Rustin reflect… Read More ›
Making New Spaces for Learning in the University
In this podcast Mark Carrigan talk to Kate Arnold, a 1st year student in Sociology at the University of Warwick, about Left Overs, a project setup by undergraduates across a range of departments which is trying to break down the… Read More ›
Campaigning for the Public University
In this podcast Mark Carrigan talks to Gurminder K. Bhambra about her experiences as an initiator of the Campaign for the Public University. We discuss the crisis in the university system and the aims of the campaign, as well as… Read More ›
University student folklore…and labour market uncertainty?
SI continues its traditional weekend review of 21st century student youtube-folklore with two songs. Our mums and dads played the guitar in scruffy student dorms full of thick nicotine smoke; today’s creative souls practice in front of webcams and flood… Read More ›
A New Model for Peer-Reviewing Monographs?
Earlier this month in London at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, during a panel for early career researchers, I asked John Holmwood why the RAE/REF does not seem to rate scholarly monographs as highly as journal articles. Both a… Read More ›
Post 2012: Opening up Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities
Previous research has shown that a large proportion of ethnic minorities in the Higher Education system are represented in undergraduate study in the new (post-1992) university sector. More prestigious universities such as Oxbridge and universities under the Russell Group banner… Read More ›
No more gap year? A sarcastic view by David Mitchell
David Mitchell offers a bitterly humorous view on the cuts in higher education subsidies here. But make sure you read everything up to the last sentence. And do not forget to read the comments…
Humanities and Social Sciences Matter!
si SUPPORTS THIS INITIATIVE: Humanities and Social Sciences Matter Campaign for the Humanities and Social Sciences in UK Universities: “Without a serious commitment to the Humanities and Social Sciences, our society will lack a serious commitment to democracy at home… Read More ›
Jon Snow, Revolting Student turned Blogger
In a climate of far reaching cuts in every sector the government can get its hands on, Higher Education in Britain is in for a battering over the coming years. Decreased research funding, decreased teaching budgets, and a lifting of… Read More ›