Impact?
Interesting article on impact – something that’s touted around a lot in HE. How is it measurable? Try this article: It is believed by the helots of the Department for Business, Industry and Skills...
View ArticleDo students debate with tutors?
Loving to engage with students who are prepared to debate … great to see this story encouraging students not to see their tutors as golden gods: Master and pupil should be bosom friends and...
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The value of conferences?
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/813592 Really interesting post in Times Higher Education – the right conferences can leave you on a real high, but I’ve also been to the type described here – which sees only...
View ArticleCan (women) have it all?
Interesting article re: whether women (or anyone) can have it all in a culture which is “always on”: Last month, a predictable storm erupted in response to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s confessional in...
View ArticleNarrative Trust with Helen Sword
Definitely an article to take on board, as someone who is keen to write ‘clearly and engagingly whatever the audience’: What theory can be advanced to explicate the propensity of a significant...
View ArticleThe Public Intellectual.
The public intellectual? Always existed? Part of the impact agenda? No stranger to broadcasting himself, Christopher Bigsby considers the rise of the public intellectual – halfway up a mountain, on a...
View ArticleAcademic stress?
I’m wondering how many small changes – by academics, and by institutions, could change this? And how much of it is self-driven? Academics are suffering from growing stress levels as a result of heavy...
View ArticleConsumerism of Higher Education
Interesting article. Find the idea of students as consumers difficult to take on board, but it’s definitely a feeling that’s getting stronger & stronger: Dr Williams – who will be discussing her...
View ArticleThe Importance of Being Useless
A piece by one of the most inspiring tutors I had at the then King Alfred’s College, Nigel Tubbs – who always challenged our thinking. I remember our first lecture with him (Education Studies), when he...
View ArticleBring Poly’s Back?
Always questioned when they got rid of all Polytechnics. Academic study is not for all, but those who choose that path should be given the best opportunity, whether it’s more theoretical, or more...
View Article“Inconvenient Truths”
Interesting article: Modern technology is so powerful that it is tempting to think that “nature” no longer exists. Commentators talk of the “death of nature”: the world is so affected by human action...
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10 Commandments of Higher Education?
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1197349 Enjoyed this piece – so important to think what higher education is about, what it’s for, and how much we can achieve when we share values (difficult in such a time of...
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‘Learnism’ in the Classroom?
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1193228 Some really really interesting comments already on the Times Higher website for this piece: It might seem perverse to suggest that students should not attend and...
View ArticleDangers of Part-Time Teaching? @timeshigher
Indeed, after many years of part-time teaching – it’s somewhat easier if you already work in the institution and so have those facilities available, but it’s hard work: Part-time teachers are not...
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Large Class Sizes Affecting NSS/Assessment Grades?
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/667182 Professor Graham Gibbs, who I worked with whilst working on the FASTECH project at Winchester – writing a series of pieces for Times Higher Education – this one on class...
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Not enough women “experts” @timeshighered
Totally recognise this (though seeking to say yes more often.. otherwise we get the same voices over and over again): There is an epidemic among female academics. It is called “impostor syndrome” and...
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Loss of Teacher Authority?
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1211780 This is interesting: “Ditching the teacher-centred, authoritarian pedagogy many mature academics were trained in…seemed like a good idea,” she writes. “Promoting active...
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How many hours should a student work?
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/730831 Always a core question – how many hours should a student be working – we worked it at 150 hours per module in my last University, of which around 36 per semester were...
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Ever met your ‘student nemesis’?
A challenging piece … more than those “difficult” students that we all have … what about the ‘student nemesis’? I know. You think that there’s no such thing as a worst student – only more or less...
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BOOK REVIEW: Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust
This looks interesting: Frank Furedi sets out to do two things in this book. First, he analyses the media circus that ensued after the 2012 airing of a BBC Newsnight report on allegations of sexual...
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