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We must not let our disabled students down

Wonkhe

The Disabled Students Commission is launching a consultation building on what it has learned about the needs of disabled students during the pandemic. Geoff Layer tells us more. The post We must not let our disabled students down appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Freedom of speech, lifts, and the importance of terminology

HEPI

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew. M. Boggs, University Clerk at Kingston University and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). He writes here on behalf of London Higher, a group representing more than 40 London universities and higher education institutions.

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There are no easy answers for university finances this year

Wonkhe

David Kernohan talks to Marc Finer of KPMG about how university finances are looking right now. The post There are no easy answers for university finances this year appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Emotional labour in the ivory tower: highlighting the experiences of academics of colour

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University. Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent.

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Consultations are not just a token opportunity for the sector to air views

Wonkhe

Universities UK's Charlotte Snelling was less than impressed with the way OfS managed the NSS consultation. The post Consultations are not just a token opportunity for the sector to air views appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Universities stepping up to promote free speech and academic freedom

HEPI

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Steve West, President of Universities UK and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). Freedom of speech and academic freedom are central to the role and purpose of universities.

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Will the government be tort a lesson over free speech?

Wonkhe

Jim Dickinson reviews the amendments submitted to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill for committee stage in the House of Lords. The post Will the government be tort a lesson over free speech? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Adele the academic? Why mature students are top of the swots

The Guardian - Higher Education

The pop singer has announced plans to take a mid-career break and study English literature. As I found out, there’s no better time to do it For more than two decades, I lived untroubled by the quiet disappointment of my parents, who had assumed I would one day go to university. But I didn’t. Getting a degree was never an ambition, and I didn’t need letters after my name to prove an intellectual point.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

Imagine you have not thought about mathematics class in over a decade. You vaguely recall how fractions are connected to decimals, and the notion of “Pi” brings something to mind other than apple deliciousness. You have collected all of your mathematical memories and locked them away in a drawer, never to be approached. Every time you feel an inkling of math anxiety, math phobia, or are reminded of math trauma, you brush it away, like you might a pesky mosquito.

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Security workers at UCL to strike over pay and union recognition

The Guardian - Higher Education

Outsourced staff with Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain want £15 an hour – the rate paid 22 years ago Security staff at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities are to walk out over pay and union recognition, their representatives have said, as the cost of living crisis continues to bite. Workers at University College London (UCL), employed via the contractor Bidvest Noonan, are demanding an increase in their hourly rate that their union says would see them paid the same nominal a

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No Internet, Now What? A New York Village Plans for the Worst - Julie Pattison-Gordon, GovTech

Economics and Change in Higher Education

*ED NOTE: As you read this imaging that your campus were to lose Internet for six months - are you prepared?* Lynbrook, N.Y.'s Internet Outage Continuity Plan takes an in-depth look at how the local government can maintain critical services — even in the face of a six-month-long Internet outage. “There will be a time when an outage occurs due to a major solar flare, terrorism or human error, lasting weeks or months on a regional or national level,” Lynbrook Village Administrator John Giordano to

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‘Newsroom Confidential’ and 5 Parallels Between Journalism and Academia

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life by Margaret Sullivan. Published in October 2022. Quick, name five things that academia and journalism have in common. My list would include the following: Undergoing a painful, unnerving and often exciting industrywide transition from analog to digital. Vital elements of a functioning democratic system that are under attack by antidemocratic forces.

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5 Signs to Immediately Recognize a Toxic Manager at Work - Marcel Schwantes, Inc.

Economics and Change in Higher Education

I've seen enough corporate disasters ending in failed businesses because of catastrophic mistakes by managers who lacked successful people leadership skills. It shouldn't come down to this, but here's the plain truth that will save your bottom line: Stop hiring or promoting people and putting them into leadership roles when they don't have the human skills and traits to do the job well.