Universities should offer more detailed information about courses to the Facebook generation, the shadow universities secretary, David Willetts, said today.The Guardian’s Higher Education summit heard that students were sharing information about the offers they receive for university courses on social networking sites, forcing universities to rethink the kind of information they give out.
Willetts said students […]

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University dropout steady at 22%
An £800m drive to reduce the number of university dropouts has had virtually no effect, according to a report from a committee of MPs. The proportion of students who fail to complete their degree has remained at 22% for five years, it reveals.
Universities are getting larger and “can be impersonal”, and […]

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Take a leaf out of Philip M Parker’s book

Philip M Parker is the world’s fastest book author, and given that he has been at it only for about five years and already has more than 85,000 books to his name, he is also probably the most prolific.
Parker is also the most wide-ranging of authors - […]

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Why I chose the University of Wherever
Students no longer care much which country they are studying in. As long as the course is excellent.
It was New York, Virginia, Oslo or Leicester for PhD student Ibrahim Umar. In the end, the 37-year-old from Nigeria decided on a university in Leicester.
But it wasn’t the UK brand that […]

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If you join the Royal Navy you can travel the world and even go to business school.
What is 318ft long, weighs 7,400 tonnes, and contains a nuclear reactor that could power 10,000 homes? HMS Astute is one of the Royal Navy’s new generation of “hunter-killer” attack submarines. Packed with the latest Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk […]

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City Banker, 34, sat exams for Student, 22
A City investment banker who held senior positions at Bank of America and Credit Suisse may face jail after posing as a university undergraduate in order to help a student cheat his way through his final-year economics exams.
Jerome Drean, 34, the former head of European equity derivatives trading […]

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