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6 avril 2019

Lycée. Le recteur à vie sanctionne

Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Il ne semble pas que le Rectorat de Nantes soit organisé pour envoyer ses condoléances aux familles qui sont affectées par le deuil d’un personnel de l’éducation nationale. Plus...

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6 avril 2019

It’s Quiet Out There…Too Quiet

Whatever happened to good old-fashioned fads? Great big, often stupid, enthusiasms about things that were going to change higher education completely. Seems like we don’t hear about them anymore. More...

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6 avril 2019

The Academic Oligarchy’s Kryptonite

Following up on yesterday’s discussion on the long-term rise of administration: it occurred to me after hitting send that there’s another aspect to the rise of administration I forgot to mention – budgeting. Historically, administration has to some degree grown as a function of the complexity of budgeting, for some very good reasons. More...

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6 avril 2019

Excellence vs Progress

Earlier this week, I was in Moscow at a session talking about (among other things) national excellence programs, making the point that there aren’t really that many examples of successful ones. More...

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6 avril 2019

Should university and college instructors ban cell phones in their classes?

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By Tony Bates. The Ontario government, under the leadership of its premier Doug Ford (a badly cloned Donald Trump), has announced it will ban cellphone use during ‘instructional time’ in its schools from September. The aim is to help students to focus when studying. This announcement was received with a big cheers from most people over 60, including the Globe and Mail’s editorial board. I also have to admit to sadness when I go to a restaurant and see couples on a date ignoring each other while scrolling through their mobile phones while waiting for their food. More...

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6 avril 2019

Seeking simple solutions to complex problems: The careers conundrum

In recent years the policy spotlight has been shining on careers and employability provision. Graduate destination metrics heavily influence Teaching Excellence Framework outcomes and league table positions. This part of the institutional offer plays a key role in student recruitment and is a hot topic at open days across the sector. More...

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6 avril 2019

Why a grade threshold for higher education study is neither necessary or defensible

Better off parents also have extra options should they think their offspring might not reach the proposed grade threshold, getting them ‘over the line’ through private tuition, funding exam resits, or paying for exam grade appeals. This is a point too rarely highlighted in this debate: the threshold would primarily hit the aspirational poorer applicant, not a middle- or upper-class applicant with lower attainment. More...

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6 avril 2019

Everybody wants to recruit the world: our Tier 4 fears (and how to fix them)

Opinion on higher education policy is starkly divided across the political spectrum. What should be on offer, where, when and who pays for it – every position appears hotly contested. On one issue, however, there is near universal agreement, but little tangible action: the UK’s approach to international students. More...

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6 avril 2019

The tide is turning for transformation in higher education

New, agile systems are making it easier for universities to pick and choose the top priority areas for incremental transformation. More...

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5 avril 2019

Do you teach the way you were taught?

As academics, we tend to model our teaching style on the way we were taught. In some courses this works well, but in other courses it may not. Learning how to teach the students we have and not the students we want can be an eye opener. More...

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