Top UK universities fall in rankings
Leading UK universities are slipping down an international league table. Ten UK universities are in the top 100 of the Times Higher Education World Rankings for 2012-13, compared with 12 last year and 14 in 2010-11. Excluding Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, Durham and University College London, several top universities slipped down. The table’s authors warned [...]
Career Advice on becoming an Entrepreneur by Sir Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson founded Virgin in 1970 – it started off as a mail order record retailer. Today the Virgin Group is made up of around 200 companies spanning 30 countries with involvements in leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio, music festivals, finance, health and more. Not bad for a guy who left school [...]
Universities shake-up calls for more competition
A planned shake-up of higher education in England, being set out later, aims to create more competition and give consumer powers to students. Universities could compete for places, including with the private sector, and be held accountable for the quality of their teaching. Universities Minister David Willetts said the White Paper aimed to put “students [...]
UK does badly in international university league table
British universities have performed poorly in an international league table of top universities which ranks Oxford and Cambridge joint sixth in the world. The list is dominated by American institutions but China and South Korea have also scored highly after compilers placed less emphasis on “reputation and heritage” and gave more weight to objective measures [...]
Ignorance expensive, warns UCU lecturers’ union head
The UK could become “yesterday’s country equipped with yesterday’s skills” if education cuts continue, the UCU lecturers’ union leader has warned. Sally Hunt told delegates at the University and College Union’s annual congress that “it is ignorance that is the expensive option, not education”. The funding cuts come as UK graduation rates are dropping below [...]