Mark Peace

2 months ago | wonkhe.com | Mark Peace |Mark Leach |Debbie McVitty

It started, as so many great conversations do, over coffee. On a chilly January day as we swapped tales of small children and shared cultural touchstones, we found ourselves riffing on the Trolls movie (which it turns out we have both seen a painful number of times). In particular, we found ourselves in Borgentown: a drab, grey world of monotony and drudgery, where fleeting joy depends on eating the vibrant, music-loving Trolls.

Nov 20, 2023 | wonkhe.com | Beth Sennett |Richard Brown |Jim Dickinson |Mark Peace

Most of us believe that it is pretty important that students read and write. But educationalist Margaret Meek challenged this literacy norm, that is ingrained in many societies, back in 1987. In 2021, the Office for Students produced a report that pushed for the improvement of literacy standards in higher education.

Nov 15, 2023 | wonkhe.com | Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach |Richard Brown |Mark Peace

When the fourth single from the Office for Students’ new quality album dropped the other day, I happened to be in a room of SU officers and managers. They’d never been fans of OfS’ previous work – they’d regarded it as fairly distant from the tastes of their own students, not commercial enough, too focussed on impressing (music) journos – but this time, it felt like #newmusictuesday had delivered the goods.

May 13, 2023 | wonkhe.com | Doug Specht |Phil Newton |Wendy Garnham |Mark Peace

Experiential learning is having something of a moment. As graduate outcomes migrate from peripheral strategic decoration to become core drivers of educational missions, many universities are seeking to build out from the long-standing gold-standard of sandwich degrees.

May 12, 2023 | wonkhe.com | Mark Peace

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