The Professional Doctorates Survey, which was run jointly by UKCGE and University Alliance, has now closed and we wish to thank all participants for their…
RGSU International Student Report We’ve heard from almost 5000 international students across the Russell Group.Our research explored the positive contribution that international students make to UK universities and beyond, as well as the barriers they face through the immigration system.
OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it permits researchers to perform bibliometric studies that can be reproduced in the community without licensing barriers. However, as OpenAlex is a rapidly evolving source and the data contained within is expanding and also quickly changing, the question naturally arises as to the trustworthiness of its data. In this report, we will study the reference coverage and selected metadata within each database and compare them with each other to help address this open question in bibliometrics. In our large-scale study, we demonstrate that, when restricted to a cleaned dataset of 16.8 million recent publications shared by all three databases, OpenAlex has average source reference numbers and internal coverage rates comparable to both Web of Science and Scopus. We further analyse the metadata in OpenAlex, the Web of Science and Scopus by journal, finding a similarity in the distribution of source reference counts in the Web of Science and Scopus as compared to OpenAlex. We also demonstrate that the comparison of other core metadata covered by OpenAlex shows mixed results when broken down by journal, where OpenAlex captures more ORCID identifiers, fewer abstracts and a similar number of Open Access status indicators per article when compared to both the Web of Science and Scopus.
A comparison of different nations’ research funding systems reveals the importance of block grants (like quality-related research funding) and maintaining both discovery and applied research
London Economics were commissioned by the National Union of Students and University of the Arts London to model the costs of the existing undergraduate higher education fees and funding regime, and an alternative funding system proposed by the NUS consisting of the reintroduction of maintenance grants for the least well-off students, combined with a ‘stepped […]
The latest of a series of great webinars in the digitally enhanced education webinars hosted by the University of Kent. All are based on the work of HE teachers
Roberts (Bangor University): AI in Higher Education: What Happened When I Made It Mandatory in Assessments seemed particularly interesting and Lyubomira Gramcheva (Middlesex University London): With or without ChatGPT? How well do law students using ChatGPT score on assessments? Bangor was interesting as the failure and lack of student engagement before allowing ChatGPT was high. Once the lecturer designed assignments where the class had to use it to figure out real world issues of their choice they liked it more. However, it needed practical, relevant applications so students thought it was worth using, especially if they were struggling with the course. Lots of check ins with progress and group sessions of practice and support. So it was not time-saving for the class leader.
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Download our latest white paper produced in partnership with Wonkhe - Capability for change – preparing for digital learning futures. Institutions that are able to build whole-organisation capability will reap the rewards in terms of the quality of student experience and the value that is realised from their technology investment. But increasingly it is coming to be understood that what is sought when making institutional decisions about technology is less strategic advantage and more about firm foundations that can enable educators to do the meaningful work that makes the most difference to students.
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Gone international: a new generation explores the impact of studying, working and volunteering abroad on students’ academic success and career outcomes.
The purpose of this paper is to report on a scoping review investigating the preference for using digital literacy, digital competence, digital fluenc…
Findings in this year's OIA annual report point to disabled students being placed at a disadvantage to their non-disabled peers. Livia Scott unpicks why legal requirements surrounding disabled students remain hard to meet
Sarah Weston and Hannah Allen spoke to working-class creative arts students, and came away with recommendations for improving inclusivity Sarah Weston and Hannah Allen spoke to working-class creative arts students, and came away with recommendations for improving inclusivity
Institutional IP Policies Database (WIPO) https://www.wipo.int/en/web/technology-transfer/institutional-ip-policies-database The Institutional IP Policy Database has been relaunched and redesigned . It has over 1,500 institutional intellectual property (IP) policy documents, guidelines and templates from more than 700 institutions including universities and research councils worldwide.
This student insight report presents what we know, from engagement with students and other sources, about the impact of a marking and assessment boycott carried out by university and college teaching staff in 2023 and the steps taken by universities and colleges to mitigate disruption.
Teachers and parents in the areas where less young people go to university agree that the cost of study is a huge problem. David Kernohan asks how widening participation can work under such conditions
Download the report: The Benefits of Hindsight – Reconsidering Higher Education Choices (2025) The research – in partnership with the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Advance HE – involved two surveys, one of more than 2,000 undergraduates and the other of more than 2,000 graduates...
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