Author
Camille Kandiko Howson
Associate Professor of Education
Dr Camille B. Kandiko Howson is Associate Professor of Education at Imperial College London
9 pieces
Newest first, since March 2016
· Comment
Is educational gain the “dark matter” of student outcomes?
In the new teaching Excellence Framework, universities are told to show how they’re measuring students’ learning. Camille Kandiko Howson spots a cop-out
· Comment
Higher education research: belonging, history, and practice
Camille Kandiko Howson, Peter Scott, and Liz Austen pick out key questions in higher education research
With Peter Scott and Liz Austen
· Comment
Should OfS worry about student welfare?
Andy Phippen, Andy Youell, Camille Kandiko Howson, Nick Hillman and Alex Bols feed in on the future of OfS
With Andy Phippen, Andy Youell, Nick Hillman and Alex Bols
· Comment
Where is the debate about the future of the National Student Survey?
Camille Kandiko Howson evaluates progress on efforts to review the UK’s national survey of students – and finds an absence of meaningful debate.
· Comment
Can we live without the NSS?
For Camille Kandiko Howson, a radical change in the NSS means an opportunity to rethink the place of the student voice in quality assurance and regulation.
· Comment
What will we take away from learning gain?
With OfS seemingly uninterested, learning gain evaluator Camille Kandiko Howson asks who will take this important work forward.
· Analysis
Let’s go fly a kite: Teaching and learning
Top wonks from across the sector share interesting ideas on teaching and learning within UK higher education
With Mike Ratcliffe, Charles Heymann and Louis Coiffait
· Analysis
Measuring learning gain isn’t easy, but it has become necessary
Camille Kandiko-Howson reports on the opportunities and challenges the first round of HEFCE projects to find better ways of understanding the learning ‘distance travelled’ through higher education.
· People
Peacock or perish? Prestige and gender in academia
Exploring findings from research with 30 mid-career academic women at universities in London, Camille Kandiko Howson considers why women only progress in higher education to a certain point.