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16 avril 2017

Article 50: Triggering a future full of ‘Bregrets’ for UK students?

Today – the day that the UK Prime Minister will trigger Article 50 and begin the UK’s two-year journey towards exiting the European Union (EU) – UK students remain concerned about Brexit. As the generation that will have the longest to live with the consequences of the UK’s departure from the EU, it is important to acknowledge the attitudes of today’s student population and attempt to understand their dissatisfaction with the Government’s decision to pursue a so-called ‘hard’ Brexit. More...

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16 avril 2017

Ontario funds research and innovation in online learning

By Tony Bates. A few days ago, eCampus Ontario officially announced nearly $2.5 million of grants for research and innovation in online learning for Ontario universities and colleges. This is a separate fund from their grants for developing online courses. More...

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16 avril 2017

One reason we are not getting enough engineers in Canada: the professional associations

By Tony Bates. From nearly 2,500 posts over nine years, none has generated so many comments as Can you teach ‘real’ engineering at a distance?
What you will see from the comments from readers is a deep and widespread frustration at the lack of recognition by Canadian professional engineering associations of any courses or programs taken by distance. This is now getting to the point where it is becoming a national scandal. Rather than your having to read through the 120 comments or so on this post, I will summarise them for you. More...

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16 avril 2017

Getting bang-for-buck from university communications

On Thursday, 30^th March, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes a new report by Richard Garner, the UK’s longest-serving education correspondent, entitled Return on investment? How universities communicate with the outside world (Occasional Paper 16). More...

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16 avril 2017

Why we must protect university autonomy

This freedom has displayed itself in numerous ways, but particularly:

through Buckingham’s innovative two-year degree model;
in the provision of an unrivalled student experience; and
by giving a congenial home to academics whose work has benefited from the freer air on offer here. More...

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16 avril 2017

Should students be free to register with different doctors for home and away?

In a recent report for HEPI, The invisible Problem? Improving Students’ Mental Health, Poppy Brown makes several recommendations, the first of which is ‘dual registration’ in general practice: ‘Allowing students to be simultaneously registered with a general practitioner (GP) at home and at university.’ More...

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16 avril 2017

Posters in Parliament: Lessons for the sector?

It’s been a week since I had the pleasure of serving on the judging panel for this year’s Posters in Parliament competition organised by the British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR). More...

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16 avril 2017

Why does the Office for National Statistics fail to measure the UK’s educational exports?

Education is one of our most successful export sectors. It is our fifth largest services sector and the second biggest contributor to our net balance of payments. So why does the Office for National Statistics (ONS) fail to measure and monitor the UK’s educational exports. More...

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16 avril 2017

International Women’s Day: Tales of Success or Survival?

Today, on International Women’s Day, it is only right that we celebrate the successes of women in higher education. After all, we live in a world where the majority of students at our universities are women. This is quite a change from the last century: the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, for example, did not formally award degrees to women until 1920 and 1947 respectively. More...

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16 avril 2017

Working with the media…

Our new paper by Richard Garner, available on the Publications page, is chock full of anecdotes illustrating his arguments about the best ways for higher education institutions to engage with the media. More...

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