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Read Stuart's first blog post

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:03:31 GMT

On their blog, Stuart and the rest of the Executive Office team will be sharing their thoughts on university events, strategic priorities and higher education news.

Blog: A Global Push to Reduce Dropout Rates

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:41:25 GMT

A political push is clearly under way worldwide to get universities to demonstrate value for money by ensuring that graduates are not just employable but that students actually finish their degrees. But this will never be easy.

Blog: Learning From the Southern Hemisphere

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:51:00 GMT

I recently visited Australia and Indonesia, both countries which—in their different ways—are pivotal for global higher education. As I returned to Britain, I was left with one question which applies to both systems in different ways. How will we handle regulation of educational-quality standards in a world in which higher education is increasingly multinational?

Blog: Seeing Small Times: a New Frontier in Social Science

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:32:01 GMT

I recently visited the CERN research facility in Geneva, where a number of faculty members from Warwick work. There, four great experiments spaced around the almost 17-mile ring of the Large Hadron Collider are being put to work on questions like what happened after the Big Bang.

Blog: 2014: a Year of ‘Consolidation’ in Britain

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:20:50 GMT

For British higher education, 2014 will be a period of consolidation. Specifically, I think we will see four trends grow as budgets tighten, as the system becomes more market oriented, and as universities face more pressure to produce better education and research with less resources.

Blog: Where is Higher Education’s global representation?

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:50:16 GMT

A recent report by the Martin School at the University of Oxford (whose remarkable benefactor, James Martin, sadly died this year) bemoans the lack of institutions able to manage the interconnected world in which we now find ourselves. The report is surely right about that...

Blog: The return of the liberal arts to Europe

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:14:57 GMT

The liberal arts have always been a North American preoccupation. It has traditionally been one of the main ways in which American and Canadian higher education has presented itself to the world...

Blog: Trading spaces: the evolving academic office in Britain

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:00:11 GMT

Offices are a central part of academic life. I can attest to this statement because here I sit at home in my “office” writing this blog. I am cocooned by comforting piles of books and papers just as I have been for more years than I want to recall.

Blog: University anniversaries worldwide

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:30:50 GMT

Anniversaries are a fact of life at universities. Wherever there are universities, there are anniversaries of universities—of their founding, of course, and then of other especially memorable dates in their histories. Sometimes it’s an anniversary of some whimsical occasion with no significance except for its very eccentricity.

Blog: It's time to accept Higher Education's growing role in the economy

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:07:58 GMT

Higher education is becoming more and more integral to national economies, especially as universities find new ways to work together.