Rob Cuthbert

@nickhillman @guardian SRHE News 63 January 2026 said: "can you use syllabi as the plural for syllabus? Some dictionaries say syllabi or syllabuses are both ‘correct’ usage, but syllabus is 4th declension in Latin, so the plural is actually syllabanti (or maybe syllabus)."

I have a question of supreme (educational) pedantry. Is it ‘syllabuses’ or ‘syllabi’? Years ago, I was taught to use the former (eg on applications for teaching jobs) but I know the latter is common, as here, and the @guardian style guide is, oddly, silent on the matter.

In case you missed our 'weekend read' SRHE News editor @RobCuthbert explains what you need to know to make sense of the row about student loans srheblog.com/2026/03/08/wha…

@TomHCalver @annaperryparis Weekend read: What you need to know to make sense of the row about student loans – SRHE Blog share.google/VXLj1E5Q9zfp3R…

This week's column: choose your university wisely Post-1992 providers have been rapidly expanding business, law and computing courses. Yet the returns for students 5 years after graduating from these courses have, to date, been woeful 1/4

My thanks to Oliver Sullivan and @TeachingTimes for posting my analysis showing that about 50% to 55% of GCSE, AS and A level grades have marking errors. @miss_mcinerney @heymrshallahan @cazjwheeler @CommonsEd @Appg_Schools @HMC_Org @NEUnion @SFCA_info teachingtimes.com/is-ai-better-a…

What do you do when you are a witness to wrong-doing? My thanks to @RobCuthbert, Rob Graham and all @SRHE for publishing today's blog. @nickhillman @cazjwheeler @CommonsEd @Appg_Schools @DanWorth @FCDWhittaker @miss_mcinerney @louise_eccles @poppyeh srheblog.com/2025/12/17/wal…

I wrote a post for the Society for Research into Higher Education (@SRHE73 ) blog: srheblog.com/2024/08/27/res… - on how we might think about GAI in the University...

Some (important) features of today's GCSE results that were not in the official press release... @BBCNews @BBCr4today @BBCWorldatOne @BBCPM @BBCNewsnight @itn @c4news @SkyNews @thetimes @guardian @Telegraph @Independent @ObserverUK @FinancialTimes @FT edcentral.uk/edblog/four-fe…

📢 Open calls for papers: Studies in Higher Education Special Issues on: Learner Agency and Human-AI Collaboration, Advancing Female Academics into Executive Leadership Positions, Reconciling Marketisation. Find out more: bit.ly/4mmzxed #HEresearch #HEpolicy #CFP

In the latest SRHE blog post, @RobCuthbert highlights how Trump‑era interventions are reshaping US higher education, from legal wrangles over abolishing the Education Department, to funding threats against Columbia and Harvard. Read it here 👇bit.ly/4ohsJzy #HEPolicy

"...proximity to students is not the same as access, and … transnational education requires more than exporting curricula across borders, it demands building relevance across cultures." Blog post: Branch campuses and the mirage of demand by Kyuseok Kim 👉 bit.ly/3IRFl06

📣 Research & Scoping Awards 2025 - submissions now open! We invite applications for: - Member Awards for research on HE policy/HE practice/HE & society - Scoping Awards for projects on emerging areas of HE research Visit bit.ly/4kzWk4u for details. Deadline 1 September

Congratulations to this year's Newer Researcher Award winners @BetzabeTorres_O, @JessBrown_UK, Yabing Liu! Learn more about their projects on our website: srhe.ac.uk/research/lates…

📣 Upcoming event: On Wednesday 2 July we will be joined by Syed Farid Alatas, @shuchen_xi71290 and @ibrar_bhatt to discuss Re-thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and #DecolonisingAcademia. Find out more and register here: srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civiw…

Join us at this upcoming workshop on 20 June to explore AI and the current thoughts, practice, and applications of AI tools in higher education research. Register here: srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civiw… #AI #AITools #NewerResearchers #HigherEducationResearch

Join us on 19 June to examine the challenges and opportunities of moving from a research/teaching background in the ‘hard sciences’, towards the softer sciences underpinning education research: bit.ly/43BVIob #PedagogicalResearch #HEResearch

What the experience of neurodivergent PhD students teaches us, and why it makes me angry - latest post on srheblog.com by Inger Mewburn @thesiswhisperer srheblog.com/2025/05/20/wha…

1) Join us July 2nd, 2025 (12–3pm, incl. lunch) in central London for “In Conversation with Syed Farid Alatas: Re-Thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons & Decolonisation of Academia.” An in-person event hosted by @SRHE73 Register srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civiw…

⏰ Final week to submit your papers, symposia and posters for #SRHE2025! Details of the full CFP and how to make a submission: srhe.ac.uk/international-… Deadline: 15 May 2025 (23:59 GMT+1) #HigherEducation #ResearchConference #CallForPapers

Do we really empower sabbatical officers to be the voice of students? Latest post on srheblog.com by Rebecca Turner, Jennie Winter & Nadine Schaefer srheblog.com/2025/04/30/do-…

The Special Issues editors for Studies in Higher Education are inviting proposals from colleagues interested in guest editing a Special Issue of the journal, to be published from 2026 onwards. Proposals by 15th May - see #special-issue-information" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/journals/cshe2… @tandfeducation