The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

My father, Phillip Williams, who has died aged 97, was one of the first educational psychologists, guided by a strong belief in equal opportunity. Phill joined the education department at the University of Wales (Swansea) in the 1960s, and moved in the early 70s to the Open University, where he became dean of education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

My mother, Irene Schwab, was an archaeologist, academic and teacher who was committed to radical leftwing projects. Born in Colindale, north London, she was the middle child of Mia (nee Hirschberg) and Peter Schwab, Jewish refugees who fled Germany in the 1930s and became co-directors of a small costume jewellery business in London.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 1, 2023

My fellow medievalist Christopher Allmand, who has died aged 86, was a historian of the hundred years war, especially during and after the reign of Henry V, to which Christopher devoted a major study in 1992.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

My friend and former colleague Anthony Dyson, who has died at the age of 91, was an artist, master printer, art historian and teacher. He acquired and applied an extraordinary range of skills and depth of knowledge that spanned the disciplines of art and education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

My friend and teacher Kenneth Fowler, who has died aged 88, was an eminent historian of the hundred years war, and a leading light in the teaching of history over more than three decades at Edinburgh University.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

My friend David Browning, who has died aged 83, was a dockworker for 15 years before becoming an academic and passionate advocate of informal adult education, working with local communities.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 27, 2022

My friend and former colleague Len Moore, who has died aged 89, was an industrial scientist turned academic who worked to create wider access to higher education. Born in Derby, he was the son of Leonard, a school caretaker, and Ethel Moore, a homemaker.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

My former tutor John Bramble, who has died aged 78, was one of a group of Latinists who, between the late 1960s and 80s, used new critical approaches to rejuvenate the study of ancient Latin texts.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2023

My friend and fellow campaigner Jan Hardy, who has died aged 77, was a committed anti-racist campaigner who became the county adviser for multicultural education in Hertfordshire local authority and a co-founder of the Anti-Racist Teacher Education Network.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2022

My wife, Beverly Sand, who has died aged 76, will be remembered as a committed and fiercely intelligent advocate for widening access to learning opportunities for those failed by their earlier experiences of the education system.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

My brother Nicholas David, who has died aged 85, was a leading figure in the field of ethnoarchaeology who undertook important research in west Africa and became professor of anthropology and archaeology at the University of Calgary. Long after he retired in 2002 Nic continued to receive funding to carry out his research.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My father, John Sayer, who has died aged 91, was a headteacher, a vice-chair of the General Teaching Council of England and Wales (GTC), and an educator who was passionate about international cooperation between universities. He was born in Romford, Essex, to Hilda (nee Salmons), a bookkeeper, and Arthur Sayer, a railway clerk.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

My mother, Brenda Almond, who has died aged 85, was a philosopher, author and ethicist. She was born into a poor, working-class family in Birkenhead, Merseyside.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

My father, Tom Markus, who has died aged 95 , was the first professor of building science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he established a thriving research base and, inspired by his socialist politics and Catholic faith, made huge efforts to address housing problems in the city.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

My friend and colleague John Bynner, who has died aged 85, was a social scientist who championed Britain’s birth cohort studies and had a mission to put the evidence to the greater good. John believed that data should inform policy to help people who are disadvantaged.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Hartness The former superintendent of Davie County Schools died of cancer, according to his obituary. Darrin Hartness, president of Davidson-Davie Community College, died Jul. 11, at age 54, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. Dr. Darrin L. A longstanding education veteran, Hartness led a 27-year career in North Carolina K-12 schools.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My father, Ronald Clarke, who has died aged 89, was an education officer who helped design courses in public administration for developing economies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

O” had previously served as the fourth president of Tompkins Cortland Community College for four years in Dryden, New York, according to her obituary. A Kingston, Jamaica native who was the youngest of six siblings, “Dr. The pain of their deaths is not unlike the experiences Black women in academia have long endured.

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Rena Seltzer, Leader Academic

AUGUST 30, 2023

As I spent time helping to craft obituaries, attending funerals, and preparing chicken soup for our family friend and her partner, I still wanted and needed to attend to running my business. At the same time, my spouse, Pam, learned that her best friend, who is like a member of our family, has metastatic pancreatic cancer.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In the couple of months since I wrote that obituary, the Register-Guard has been reduced to a skeletal staff. The paper could draw on the resources of the UO student body and faculty. Such an experiment, I wagered, would gain support from the public served and from the business community.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Not only can you find obituaries dating back decades listing kin, but you can also find where those relatives live and work. ” To that, I say, “Horseshit.” ” In today’s information age, you can find anyone by doing a modicum of online research (just ask my ex-husband, eye roll).

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Co-creator of an Open University course that had a profound effect on the study of design history in Britain Charlotte Benton, who has died of a heart attack aged 80, was one of a handful of pioneers who helped shape design history as a discrete discipline in the 1970s and 80s, initially in collaboration with her husband, Tim.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

As Peter Hennessy’s obituary of him said : ‘For “Rammers”, as he was known, history lived and breathed and talked and sang.’ Some of you may know his books about the history of the Conservative Party and Churchill , or his books about films like the Dam Busters and Anglo-German relations.

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Appropriate verifiable written documentation (obituary, confirmation of urgent care visit or hospitalization, etc.) A single exception to a single deadline for one assignment (not the last deadline) may be granted only at the instructor’s discretion should an extreme emergency situation arise that is beyond the student’s control.

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Appropriate verifiable written documentation (obituary, confirmation of urgent care visit or hospitalization, etc.) A single exception to a single deadline for one assignment (not the last deadline) may be granted only at the instructor’s discretion should an extreme emergency situation arise that is beyond the student’s control.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Political scientist whose radical writing and professorship at Essex University transformed the study of government Jean Blondel, who has died aged 93, was one of the founding fathers of modern political science.

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