Livia Scott

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Livia Scott |Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach |Debbie McVitty

Institutions spend a lot of time surveying students for their feedback on their learning experience, but once you have crunched the numbers the hard bit is working out the “why.”The qualitative information institutions collect is a goldmine of insight about the sentiments and specific experiences that are driving the headline feedback numbers. When students are especially positive, it helps to know why, to spread that good practice and apply it in different learning contexts.

2 months ago | wonkhe.com | Livia Scott |Jim Dickinson

In the context of wider financial pressures on providers, universities can be a challenging environment to work in at present. So, a crackdown on ensuring all disabled student support plans are both in place and implemented may have fallen to the bottom of the to-do list. Couple that with chronic delays in the Disabled Students’ Allowance system – delays are roughly a month – and it’s a pretty bleak picture for disabled students.