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Stand Alone: 2015 – 2024: 10 years of changing higher education for estranged students

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Susan Mueller , Director at Stand Alone. These students who were living independently and were totally self-reliant faced an uphill battle. Stand Alone has announced its closure and its higher education work is coming to an end. And they called on Stand Alone to help.

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Challenge Labs – a new way of doing research and teaching

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. The Humanities Research Institute at Newcastle University is testing one solution by tackling another silo: the compartmentalisation of research and teaching.

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Higher ed job descriptions can’t compete. Here’s how to fix them.

EAB

Pitfall #1: Higher barriers to entry shrink applicant pools from the outset. Despite typically paying employees less than out-of-sector competitors, higher ed institutions tend to require that applicants have more experience, even for entry-level roles. Higher ed job descriptions can't compete. Here's how to fix them.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

Government incompetence accentuated massive problems with school examinations and HE admissions, with disruptive enrolment changes rippling across the entire HE system. Undergraduate fees were trebled, to deliver most tuition income via students rather than a funding agency.

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The Post-Pandemic College Campus as a Design Challenge

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I don’t know whether Outer Space is, as Star Trek tells us, the final frontier, but I know full well that physical space is among campus’ biggest sources of conflict. I certainly understand that the campus symbolically represents a college or university. It’s appearance is key to its brand.

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Memo to Universities UK: don’t let this crisis go to waste

SRHE

She had taken to telephoning individual vice-chancellors to question some aspect of university management or student behaviour, while enthusiastically pursuing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which at the time of writing is at the committee stage in the House of Lords, procedurally close to its establishment in statute – perhaps.

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How to Make Teaching More Inclusive, Interactive, Equitable, and Participatory

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Discussions of pedagogy, instructional design, technology integration, and assessment are no longer confined to K-12 teachers. Even more striking: Instructor-centered classrooms were nearly as common in seminars and discussion classes as it was in lecture courses.