The declining influence of league tables

It's harder than ever to be personalised. Universities have been trying to achieve widespread personalisation in websites for years. No one has cracked it. So why is it still a desirable website feature? 

Almost every university uses GA. France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has issued updated guidance on the use of Google Analytics following a decision early last year that found the use of the tool to be in breach of European Union law under certain circumstances. Would yo ...  Show more

Education Headline RoundupHere are the school & learning headlines we cover in this week’s episode of 16:1: Dartmouth College (a private, Ivy League research institution in New Hampshire) recently announced it will require SAT/ACT scores again for applicants starting with the cla ...  Show more

Colleges and universities in the United States attract more than a million international students a year. Higher education is one of America’s top service exports, generating $42 billion in revenue. But the money spigot is closing. The pandemic, visa restrictions, rising tuition ...  Show more

Why are "good colleges" often the ones that accept the fewest students? Exposing the harmful consequences of society's obsession with highly rejective (and expensive) universities, educator Cecilia M. Orphan asks us to rethink what makes institutions "prestigious" and consider di ...  Show more

Almost half of the UK's school leavers are now going to university. But the university sector is under more scrutiny than ever before. Sonia Sodha argues that it's time to take a profound look at what universities are really for. Should we be spending vast amounts of public money ...  Show more