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Most universities are charities: so what?

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Mary Synge , academic author and charity law specialist. On the website of nearly every university, you will find an explanation that the institution is a charity. The act of placing all higher education providers in one pot also obliterates the distinctiveness of those that are charities.

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The regulation of student education: are the quality wars back?

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Professor Roger Brown, former Vice-Chancellor of Solent University. QAA was still formally owned by the institutions through the representative bodies but acted as a contractor for the Funding Councils for assessment.

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Great Expectations: Myth and the Student Experience

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Jon Down , Director of Development and Ellie Garraway , CEO, of Grit Breakthrough Programmes. In his recent HEPI blog, Leo Hanna outlined the dangers of students’ expectations not matching up to reality: wasted opportunities for non-continuing students, lost revenue and reputational harm to institutions.

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In the search for jobs, should disadvantaged students behave more like middle-class students … or should the labour market change?

HEPI

Plato around a seminar table this ain’t Wildavsky usefully nails the idea that higher education is contrary to skills-based learning, noting that even the ‘land-grant institutions’ founded in the US over a century ago provide practical experience. readers of this blog will be excluded altogether. Upskilling and reskilling. Many (most?)

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Can Ethics Be Taught to College Students?

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

I have blogged before about how to teach ethics to college students. There is no one best way to do so and a variety of methods have been tried. One set of values have been developed by the Josephson Institute of Ethics. Try your best. Think before you act. Your best friend was diagnosed with cancer a year ago.

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Where next? A new dawn for the OfS (OfS over the horizon, part II)

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Derfel Owen ( LinkedIn ), Director of Education Services at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Ant Bagshaw , Senior Advisor at L.E.K. This is the second part of two blogs focusing on the Office for Students. Consulting. Yesterday we focussed on the story so far for the OfS.

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‘To diary or not to diary’? – lessons learned from the SRHE workshop ‘Using Diary Method in Social Research’

SRHE

So, in this blog, I will present my main takeaways from the day and how I adapted what I learned to fit the diary method in a recent collaborative research proposal submitted for funding. Her main interests lie in EDI considerations in HE, with a special focus on issues related to race and ethnicity.