235 pieces
Newest first, since April 2020 · page 5 of 12
· SUs
Are SUs neoliberal – and so what if they are?
Continuing his series on SU strategy, James Coe interrogates the allegation that SUs are neoliberal – identifying actions and alternatives along the way
· SUs
Emergent strategy for students’ unions
James Coe looks at traditional approaches to strategy development – and reckons an alternative might be a better fit when you’re democratic, student led and representative.
· Comment
The rubbish bin theory of the student experience
James Coe takes a look at what can be done about those annoying, frustrating, slightly wrong, but not entirely terrible issues that accumulate to make for a bad student experience
· Comment
The class gap in the civic map
James Coe heads back to Darlington and worries the civic agenda is becoming a bit too distant, a bit too middle class, and a bit too removed from the lives of people in the communities it seeks to impact.
· Wonk Corner
The imbalanced but impactful UK Research Partnership Investment Fund
A new evaluation shows UKRPIF is crowding in investment, funding new facilities, and catalysing new partnerships, but not equally everywhere
· Comment
Lessons from Australia’s launch of the Strategic Examination of Research and Development
James Coe shares lessons for the UK from the Australian government’s launch of the Strategic Examination of Research and Development
· Comment
It’s time for universities to take the lead on economic growth
If the economy doesn’t grow universities are going to be forever arguing for their slice of an ever shrinking pie. James Coe draws out what a university agenda about economic growth could look like
· Wonk Corner
The lessons for research funding from Covid-19
James Coe gets across a new report and thinks about what pandemic era approaches to funding might tell us about the research ecosystem going forward
· Policy Watch
The role of universities in growing the economy – Labour’s industrial strategy explained
James Coe has everything you need to know on Labour’s industrial strategy green paper
· Comment
The Research Excellence Framework cannot carry the can for the whole research ecosystem
James Coe asks whether a proposal to scrap the REF is a symptom of bigger problems in the research ecosystem
· Comment
Universities UK has a plan to fix research funding
UUK’s blueprint for universities calls for the government to fix a research funding system which is “not fit for purpose”. James Coe has the details
· Analysis
Evolution not revolution: What the UK wants from the next Horizon programme
The UK has set out its asks for the next version of Horizon but James Coe wonders whether anyone is listening
· Comment
Why are international PGRs so far off the policy radar?
The contributions of international postgraduate research students can be seen throughout the UK’s research ecosystem. James Coe and Jess Lister make the case for some joined-up thinking
With Jess Lister
· SUs
Whose SU is it anyway?
If students are diverse, time poor and problem rich, does the dominant model of student representation and democracy work to serve their interests? James Coe explains the promise and challenge of dispersed democracy mode
· Comment
Why research integrity matters to all of us
James Coe peers into the murky world of research malpractice and comes out worried about the size of the problem.
· Wonk Corner
Research councils revise open access plans
Proposals for extending the OA mandate to books get walked back – for now
· Analysis
Young, white, and bright? The far right on campus
James Coe and Livia Scott look at the influence of the far-right on UK universities – and ask whether the sector is being too complacent.
With Livia Scott
· Comment
The challenges and opportunities of securonomics
James Coe looks at the challenges and opportunities for universities in Labour’s big economic idea
· Comment
Skills England will be a very big deal
James Coe and David Kernohan run through what we know and what we can guess about the new post-compulsory arms length body
With David Kernohan
· Wonk Corner
The unofficial reintroduction to Patrick Vallance
As Patrick Vallance goes to DSIT James Coe takes a look at the life and times of the new Minister for Science