TweetCross-posted from Student Intellectual Property Rights Following on from my previous post, I narrowed down my study of university IP policy to West Midlands-based universities. As there are quite a few universities in the region, I will firstly be looking at … Continue reading →
TweetLast week, it was announced that Michael Gove wanted Universities to have a big influence on the curricula of A-level exams. With Gove’s requests to Ofqual ringing in university’s ears, it’s key to look at some of the elements that … Continue reading →
TweetIf something has a Wikipedia entry that’s difficult to understand, it’s bound to be an intricate, complex, and rarely explained subject. University governance is one of those subjects. Rarely looked into, examined or explained, (outside of academia at least) the … Continue reading →
TweetCross-posted by Anthony Williams from Student Intellectual Property Rights. The world of intellectual property can be murky at the best of times, but where universities can claim IP rights over the work of students, it is especially so. The University … Continue reading →
TweetThe United States of America spends more money on education than any other nation in the world. Yet one out of four high school students still don’t graduate and 7,000 high schoolers drop out every day. In fact, the U.S. … Continue reading →
TweetA former employee of the Ashcroft Technology Academy is interviewed on The Green Benches blog and suggests that contracts included a “no strike clause”. The interview covers a number of employment conditions, including less holiday than in state schools; longer … Continue reading →
TweetKathryn Torney at TheDetail.tv has been using FOI requests to look into school performance in Northern Ireland. She’s agreed to share her data on Help Me Investigate Education – let us know if you use it for your own work … Continue reading →
TweetA new U.S. website, The Adjunct Project, is looking for data on how adjunct, or contingent, faculty are treated at institutes of higher education. The best part about this is that anyone can submit data. There’s a fairly simple form … Continue reading →
TweetBBC Radio 4′s The Report has done a nice bit of investigative journalism and revealed “the locations of 173 English primary schools the government wants to convert into academies.” Here’s the data The Report collected. The full report will air tonight, 16 February, … Continue reading →
TweetA few weeks ago, we blogged about how the Education Committee was soliciting questions from the public to ask Michael Gove via Twitter. Did you miss the actual committee meeting where Gove answered the questions? Well, there are a few … Continue reading →