The University of Cambridge has announced that it will stop using the Law National Admissions Test after this year's application process (for 2009 or deferred 2010 entry). It says that:...the numerical scores awarded to applicants in the multiple-choice section of the test do not provide sufficiently distinctive and useful information within the ( Read more... )

The government is to fund a board of Islamic scholars, to be hosted by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, who will debate "critical issues affecting Muslims in the UK ( Read more... )

Mike Baker has written yet another excellent piece. I'm all for independent scrutiny of university procedures, and if we really must insist on charging people for education at the point of delivery, I supppose we have to ensure that they get "value for money" in a broad sense. But the pressure that has been brought to bear on academics to ( Read more... )

The Training for the Bar Committee of the Bar Council have recommended that students should gain automatic entry to the BVC only if they have a 2:i in Law, or its equivalent on the GDL ( Read more... )

The government has seemingly back-tracked somewhat on its proposal to divert £100m from funding second undergraduate degrees to the education of those who don't yet have a degree. It now says that extra money will be set aside to fund part-time courses and there will be an annual review of exempt courses and an immediate review concerning those ( Read more... )

Mike Baker hits the nail on the head in the examination standards debate.

I was surprised to read that a Sikh family are willing to "convert" their daughter to Catholicism if it helps her to stay at her local Catholic school ( Read more... )

The age-old debate about which university courses are worthy of public funding has been re-ignited by the Taxpayers' Alliance. But for the first time, I've realised that there are two antagonistic viewpoints among those critical of the current state of higher education ( Read more... )