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Quietly, the RAB charge is reaching worrying levels

by David Kernohan

25/09/20

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How to devise a successful peer tutoring scheme

by Sophia Birk

25/09/20

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Back to campus essentials – don’t forget about the data

by Kim Walker

24/09/20

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Does student voting intention tell us more about students or politics?

by Jim Dickinson

24/09/20

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Covid-19 has not dampened the appeal of UK higher education

by Clare Marchant

24/09/20

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Who are students going to live with next year?

by Jim Dickinson

23/09/20

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Why universities should recruit students on their character

by Tom Harrison

23/09/20

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Higher education is transformative – it should be open to all

by Paul Ashwin

23/09/20

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To be a science super power we must support the whole research ecosystem

by Nick Talbot

22/09/20

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Amid a Covid cases increase, here’s what R means to us

by Chris Day

21/09/20

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Not enough whack for the moles

by Jim Dickinson

21/09/20

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Universities are uniquely vulnerable to cyber attack during Covid-19

by Sion Lloyd-Jones

21/09/20

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Has Covid-19 infected university league tables?

by Rhiannon Birch

18/09/20

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Policymakers claiming the NSS is driving down standards should get their own house in order

by Paul Ashwin

17/09/20

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Can research clusters help level up the country?

by Richard Jones

16/09/20

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Universities must embed digital for the long term

by Sarah Knight

15/09/20

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Pushing student societies underground would threaten community safety

by Jim Dickinson

14/09/20

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Is there still a case for national coordination of students’ return to campus?

by Debbie McVitty

14/09/20

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Waiting for perfect data won’t help the students thinking about leaving their course

by Richard Gascoigne

14/09/20

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Can we live without the NSS?

by Camille Kandiko Howson

14/09/20

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Does the tone of ministerial speeches to vice chancellors signal a wider shift?

by Debbie McVitty

11/09/20

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International students need our help

by Ricardo Visinho

11/09/20

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Perceptions of digital education have changed dramatically in six months

by David Maguire

10/09/20

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A new approach to evaluating higher education leadership

by Charles Prince

9/09/20

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Is it Freshers Flu or Covid-19?

by Jim Dickinson

8/09/20

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The first weeks may be critical for the 2020 cohort

by Sally Brown

7/09/20

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Mental fitness helps us all to thrive – it should be in the curriculum

by Nick Bennett

7/09/20

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Should we abandon algorithms in education?

by Chris Thomson

4/09/20

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Reflection will help students navigate a post-Covid future

by Iro Konstantinou

4/09/20

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The performance of learning is not higher education

by David Manning

3/09/20

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Can OfS help universities bridge the digital divide?

by Jim Dickinson

3/09/20

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Will it be a happy new year for higher education?

by Louise Nicol

2/09/20

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Doesn’t the science on Covid get #madeatuni?

by Jim Dickinson

2/09/20

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September will be better than April – but not for everyone

by Antony C. Moss

1/09/20

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Who gets squeezed out when places are restricted?

by Omar Khan

28/08/20

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To address the UKs’ language skill deficit, we really need to be a part of Erasmus

by Simon Goldhill

27/08/20

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We should be thinking about fee refunds for students with disabilities – every year

by Stephen Campbell

26/08/20

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How do we persuade students to behave themselves this coming term?

by Jim Dickinson

26/08/20

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Maybe the next restructuring regime should be more radical

by Alan Sutherland

25/08/20

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Is the sector really back in the government’s good books?

by Jonathan Simons

24/08/20

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Are there silver linings from the examnishambles?

by Ian Turgoose

21/08/20

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A month to go, and still lots of questions to answer

by Jim Dickinson

21/08/20

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The sector must collaborate to escape the government’s triple lock of policy failure

by Mark Leach

20/08/20

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Just another brick in a wall

by Claire Taylor

20/08/20

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A truly decolonial curriculum means treating students as citizens

by Kirk Sides

20/08/20

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2020 shows us that high-stakes exams have a lot to answer for

by Alison Shaw

19/08/20

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People want to hear from experts

by Miriam Frankel

19/08/20

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Fair grades are just a starting point

by David Kernohan

18/08/20

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2020 made us too – the pandemic postgraduates

by Andrew McRae

18/08/20

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Registration isn’t working for the sector’s SMEs

by Alex Proudfoot

17/08/20

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What can be done to help fix this year’s A level results shambles?

by Sarah Sharples

17/08/20

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It’s time to think about scrapping A levels entirely

by Debbie McVitty

17/08/20

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A level policy decisions left disadvantaged students devastated

by Alice Dee

15/08/20

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Can I see clearing now the rain has gone

by Jim Dickinson

14/08/20

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Year 12, and the perils of applying to university during a pandemic

by Katherine Lloyd Clark

13/08/20

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We need an Open Covid Pledge for education

by Helen Beetham

12/08/20

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Why has a gap year suddenly become such a risky option?

by Jim Dickinson

12/08/20

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Will we really punish students over Covid-19?

by Levi Pay

12/08/20

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What if the problem is A levels and Highers, not 2020?

by David Kernohan

11/08/20

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Improving articulation between Scottish colleges and universities

by Nigel Seaton

11/08/20

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We need a fairer system for admitting students to university

by Graeme Atherton

11/08/20

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Sharing and reusing data makes for excellent research

by Pete Stokes

7/08/20

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Students are hitting hard times – will they get the facts they need?

by Michelle Morgan

7/08/20

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This so called culture war is a phoney one

by Jack Harvey

7/08/20

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30 things we learned from the OfS board papers for July 2020

by David Kernohan

6/08/20

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We need a plan for student housing for the next decade

by Jim Dickinson

6/08/20

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We’ll be judged by the careers we create

by Tanita Casci

6/08/20

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How to sustain authentic learning in challenging times

by Ed Stevens

5/08/20

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Coronavirus risk assessments need to cover mental as well as physical health

by Jim Dickinson

5/08/20

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Now is a good time to strengthen collaboration over teaching

by Keith Hennigan

4/08/20

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Proposals on academic freedom would achieve anything but

by Jim Dickinson

3/08/20

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Inclusive teaching is harder then it looks – but there is a way

by Nick Cartwright

30/07/20

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What students need is to know that someone is looking out for them

by Gurbaaz Gill

30/07/20

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What have nurseries got to do with student requests for fee refunds?

by Jim Dickinson

29/07/20

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Covid-19, domestic abuse and what universities can do for students

by Chris Magill

29/07/20

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Effective professionals are central to change in our sector

by Andrew West

29/07/20

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How universities can avoid another mis-selling scandal

by Eve Alcock

28/07/20

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Trading Places reminds us about the excesses of Theresa May’s Home Office

by Tom Bailey

27/07/20

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University staff have moved mountains during Covid-19

by Joanne Marshall

27/07/20

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Student consumers, refunds, discounts and the law

by David Palfreyman

24/07/20

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We can feel the promises on race and racism fading already

by Ruqia Osman

23/07/20

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There are false dichotomies in ministerial ideas about “true student mobility”

by Julian Crockford

22/07/20

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Attention to accreditation will drive lifelong learning

by Ruth Drysdale

21/07/20

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Transforming learning is for life, not just until Christmas

by Andrew Turner

20/07/20

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Planning for September means listening to the experts

by Jackie Labbe

20/07/20

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We need to talk – dialogue in widening access

by Jo Goodman

17/07/20

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The human impact of this pandemic has implications for policy and practice

by Julie Hulme

17/07/20

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Some students are more seriously affected than others – complaints during Covid-19

by Felicity Mitchell

14/07/20

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Does Gavin Williamson mean what he says and does it matter?

by Charles Heymann

13/07/20

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Maybe this will be the government that delivers for further education

by Julian Gravatt

13/07/20

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Students want clarity but they’ll settle for empathy

by Robert Perry

10/07/20

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White people must commit to antiracist action for the long term

by Debbie McVitty

9/07/20

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Where next for modern languages?

by Seán Williams

8/07/20

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26 things we spotted in the April and May OfS board papers

by David Kernohan

7/07/20

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Covid-19 will delay and derail PGR projects

by Andrew McRae

7/07/20

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This dumbed down higher education policy won’t help the government “level up”

by Mark Leach

6/07/20

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A strange speech to widening participation practitioners

by Alex Blower

6/07/20

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The B3 bear is coming out of hibernation to close your low value provision

by Jim Dickinson

6/07/20

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Could the response to Covid-19 help build more inclusive learning environments?

by Raeesah Ellis-Haque

6/07/20

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