Government needs to help league table compilers

The IUSS Committee’s recent report on students and universities is a most extraordinary document in all sorts of ways. One of the more entertaining propositions relates to university league tables where the Committee accepts the existence (wisely, you might argue) of league tables and acknowledges the work that HEFCE has recently published. However, its take …

Sheffield made a video competition

Really good competition being run by the University of Sheffield. Sheffield Made Us is a competition (for a £3k prize) open to the University's students which invites them to make a 3 minute video about the value of their experience: The motto of the University is 'to discover and understand the causes of things'. Show …

NSS results – just about the same as last year

Good news or bad news? Not a lot to write home about with very little change but BBC reports that satisfaction rate 'slips': This year's final year students in England were marginally less happy with their university experience than last year's leavers, an annual survey shows. The National Student Survey shows 81% were mostly or …

Unemployed graduate sues College for failing to find her a job

Could it happen in the UK? The Guardian reports that Trina Thompson, an unemployed graduate of Monroe College in New York, is suing the school for not working hard enough to find her a job: Thompson claims Monroe College in New York's Bronx borough should refund her $70,000 (£41,307) in tuition for a bachelor's degree …