The latest blog post from Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Nigel Thrift:

In the year of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, it seems appropriate to continue writing about the differences between the U.S. and British higher-education systems. Most commentators agree that the reasons for that fascinatingly odd war and who won it remain controversial. Let’s hope that I can be clearer about some of our educational disagreements—and similarities...

The alliance aims to offer a transnational experience for students and staff, explains its director, Professor Andrew Coats.

The latest blog entry from Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:

Universities are chock-full of novelists and poets. Indeed, the cultural life of nations would be mightily impoverished without their presence. There have of course been many studies of novelists and poets who are also academics. Perhaps it is just that I have not noticed the phenomenon before, but it does seem as though they are expanding in number now as never before.

The key risk of current policy as I see it is that, if the funding and resource model shifts to one driven only by a short-term student experience and perspective, it may be more a case of As You Like It at the time, but the Great Expectations that we all have for enhanced longer term reputation for higher education in the UK, its institutions and their graduates, may be less deliverable.

As featured on the University of Warwick staff's HE Guest Blog, Registrar and Chief Operating Officer Ken Sloan shares his views on Higher Education policy as part of an exchange with former NUS-President Aaron Porter and Bob Hogg, executive director of Strategic Partnerships, Serco UK & Europe that orginally appeared on the Ethos Journal.

The latest blog entry from the Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:

A good friend of mine from the United States, observing the British higher-education scene, noted that, whereas the United States had taken 30 years to make its system more market-oriented, it was taking England only two.

The result, I think, is a kind of general culture shock..