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From playground to lecture hall - working with schools to support wellbeing throughout education

3 days ago | wonkhe.com | Elena Riva |David Kernohan |Mark Leach

Higher education institutions are increasingly acknowledging the importance of wellbeing in shaping meaningful and sustainable learning experiences. However, the wellbeing of students and staff is often treated as a separate or secondary issue, addressed through isolated initiatives rather than embedded into the fabric of university life. I propose adopting a lifelong approach to wellbeing in education grounded in appreciating that schools and universities are not distinct spheres.
International students benefit local economies, and this extends to those living and working there

4 days ago | wonkhe.com | Charlie Jeffery |David Kernohan |Mark Leach

Universities once again find themselves in the crosshairs of a political argument around migration.
Research and innovation in the industrial strategy

4 days ago | wonkhe.com | David Kernohan |Mark Leach

The UK needs a plan for growth and innovation – an industrial strategy is a way of picking winners in terms of sector investments and prioritisation. Today’s iteration (the fourth in recent times, with Theresa May’s government providing the previous one) chooses eight high-potential sectors to prioritise funding and skills interventions, with the overall intention of encouraging private investment over the long term.
Moving beyond the quality wars

5 days ago | wonkhe.com | Richard Harrison |David Kernohan |Mark Leach

A decade since his passing, work remains a touchpoint of UK higher education analysis. This reflects the depth and acuity of his analysis, but also his ability as a phrasemaker. One of his phrases that has stood the test of time is the “quality wars” – his label for the convulsions in UK higher education in the 1990s and early 2000s over the assurance of academic quality and standards. Watson coined this phrase in 2006, shortly after the 2001 settlement that brought the quality wars to an end.
The world is sorting out the quality of transnational education, but where is England?

5 days ago | wonkhe.com | David Kernohan |Mark Leach

If you believe – as many do – that English higher education is among the best in the world, it can come as an unwelcome surprise to learn that in many ways it is not. As a nation that likes to promote the idea that our universities are globally excellent, it feels very odd to realise that the rest of the world is doing things rather better when it comes to quality assurance.
Quality assurance needs consideration, not change for change’s sake

5 days ago | wonkhe.com | Ben Cooper |Mark Leach

It’s been a year since publication of the Behan review and six months since OfS promised to “transform” their approach to quality assessment in response. But it’s still far from clear what this looks like, or if the change is what the sector really needs. In proposals for a new strategy published back in December OfS suggested a refocus of regulatory activity to concentrate on three strategic priorities of quality, the wider student experience and financial resilience.
Blurred lines: Has OfS misunderstood freedom of speech?

6 days ago | wonkhe.com | Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach

Academic year 2013-14 was an interesting one. I’d started work at UEA’s students’ union – and in the slipstream of national work on harassment and sexual misconduct and “lad culture”, I’d attracted considerable opprobrium from some working in the campus venue because I’d resolved that we wouldn’t be playing Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”.
How to address harassment and sexual misconduct experienced by PGRs

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Anna Bull |David Morris |Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach

The experiences of postgraduate researchers (PGRs) have not received the same level of attention as undergraduate students in relation to tackling harassment and sexual misconduct. PGRs have very different conditions of study than undergraduate or taught postgraduate students, and they may be at a different stage in life with significant professional experience.
Podcast: Free speech guidance, R&D

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Mark Leach

This week on the podcast we examine the Office for Students’ new free speech guidance as controversial requirements prepare to take effect from August 1st. What do the “deeply disturbing” YouGov findings about academic self-censorship really tell us, and how should universities navigate campus protests and challenging research topics? Plus we discuss outgoing UKRI chief Ottoline Leyser’s stark warning about “inevitable consolidation” in university research.
Higher education postcard: Queen Alexandra’s House

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

Greetings from South Kensington!I’ve told elsewhere the story of how the Imperial Institute was founded following the Great Exhibition of 1851, and how the South Kensington site became a hub for colleges, museums and culture. And naturally, where there are students, there is a need to house students. And one group of students, in particular, exercised the Victorian imagination: women.