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Podcast: Efficiency, EDI, speed

1 day ago | wonkhe.com | Mark Leach

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Higher education postcard: University of Cambridge, the Senate House

1 day ago | wonkhe.com | Hugh Jones |Mark Leach

Greetings from Cambridge!Today’s card shows the Senate House at the University of Cambridge. Building started in 1722, the Senate House opened in 1730, and it was completed in 1768 (yes, that is the right order of events). It was designed by the Jameses Gibbs and Burroughs (the latter being master of Gonville and Caius); woodwork by James Essex the Elder; and ceiling plaster by Artari and Bagutti. As the name suggests, it was built as a meeting place for the university’s senate.
Can we use LEO in regulation?

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | David Kernohan |Mark Leach

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has, perhaps, been the greatest beneficiary of the Department for Education’s decade-long experiment with Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data. It conducted the first analysis, and has been the most prominent user of this dataset ever since.
Our drop-out and pace miracle is harming students’ health and learning

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach

One of the most alarming things about the Department for Education (DfE) commissioned National review of higher education student suicide deaths is the apparant role of academic pressure. Well over a third of the serious incidents reviewed made explicit reference to academic problems or pressures – often tied to exams or exam results. Other pressures included anxiety about falling behind, upcoming deadlines, perceived pressure to perform, and involvement in “support to study” procedures.
Higher education postcard: University of the Balearic Islands

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Hugh Jones |Mark Leach

Oh this year we’re off to sunny Spain! (If you’re old enough, you’ll know.) But we’re not taking the Costa Brava plane, instead we’re off to Mallorca. In 1483 King Ferdinand of Aragon (yes, that one; half of the double-act Ferdinand and Isabella) authorised the establishment of the Estudi General Lul-Lià in Palma, on the island of Mallorca. This was a college named in honour of Ramon Llull. Ramon Llull, philosopher and theologian, who lived from 1232 to 1316, and was a native Mallorcan.
Podcast: Governance, apprenticeships, trends

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Mark Leach

This week on the podcast we examine the OfS penalty imposed on Leeds Trinity over subcontractual partnerships oversight. What does the £115,000 fine and a new proposed code of “ethical” governance tell us about decision-making at the top? Plus we discuss the government’s decision to axe level 7 apprenticeships from levy funding, and explore incoming OfS chair Edward Peck’s ten trends shaping the future of campus universities.
A code of ethical university governance is overdue

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Steven T. Jones |Mark Leach

It’s a thankless job being a university governor at the best of times. The structures and hierarchies – established over decades, even centuries – feel impenetrable. You’re overwhelmed with papers and reading, never completely sure what’s going on at meetings. Statutes and ordinances, rules and regulations, sub-committees and working groups. And all this you’re doing for free? But during precarious times for the sector, the job gets even harder. Income lags further behind expenditure.
Action on researcher career development must go beyond surface-level fixes

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Yolana Pringle |Mark Leach

The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers was designed to drive culture change, not compliance. However, many institutional action plans suggest institutions are meeting the letter rather than the spirit of its commitments.
Getting students drawing can help belonging and mental health

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Zoë Allman |Mark Leach |Chris Wright

Empowering students to develop a creative skillset in response to curriculum-based tasks facilitates experimentation and exploration. Increasing creativity supports problem-solving and innovation in a range of academic disciplines. Developing these skills, students acknowledge improvements in their mental health and wellbeing.
Higher education postcard: University of Greater Manchester

2 weeks ago | wonkhe.com | Hugh Jones |Mark Leach

Greetings from Bolton. Definitely Bolton. In 1824, a mechanics’ institute was established in Bolton. Mechanics’ institutes were a new phenomenon – the first was established in Scotland in 1821. They were, in essence, a subscription-based club which provided an opportunity for education, aimed at the better-off members of the working class. As the 1857 advert in the Bolton Chronicle shows, it was still going fifty years later. You can see the 1857 subscription fees in the advertisement.