Author
Nick Isles
Nick Isles is the chief executive officer at Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design. Nick is an experienced writer, researcher and consultant with over twenty years’ experience of engagement with organisations across the private, voluntary and public sectors. In recent years he has specialised in working with a wide number of universities in the UK and elsewhere.
Nick has experience of working at a very senior level in think tanks and universities and colleges.His former clients include universities as diverse as Lancaster, Southampton, UEA, Gloucestershire, Aberdeen and major corporates such as Tesco, The Guardian, AXA and PWC.
He has delivered leadership development programmes for Henley Business School and has been a visiting lecturer at Nottingham University Business School.
Nick is the author or editor of Enterprising Europe (2002), The Good Work Guide (2010), What Kind of World Do We Want? (2015), and The 7 Steps to Frontier Leadership (2017).
3 pieces
Newest first, since March 2021
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International students and specialist courses
For Nick Isles, recent ministerial comments about international students have been dangerously underinformed.
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We need to reverse the regional brain drain to level up
Is there a case for carefully designed regional fee cap incentives to move the sector’s centre of gravity away from London, asks Nick Isles
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Evolve or die – the challenge for HE leadership in the post-pandemic world
Nick Isles raises the alarm on the existential scale of change that will be expected from universities in the decade ahead.