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How to fail, with Universities UK

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Reflecting on positive noises from government towards the sector at Universities UK annual conference, Debbie McVitty argues for assessment of past failures to make the most of future opportunities

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The Time to Talk with Students About Transfer is Now

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“If you want to transfer and get your bachelor’s, you have to make a plan. You have to make sure you’re getting your courses in sequence so you’re not in school forever and you’re not in huge amounts of debt.” - Community College Advisor Dr. Courtney Adkins One of the great benefits of attending a community college is the low-cost accrual of college credit that can be applied to a bachelor’s degree upon transfer to a four-year college or university.

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Future Nobel prizes rely on young people going to university, says science minister

The Guardian - Higher Education

Peter Kyle, who applied to university three times, said Tory government’s ‘war’ on higher education was over Britain’s future Nobel prizes will come from encouraging young people into university rather than making sandwiches in high street chains, according to the science secretary Peter Kyle, who declared that the previous government’s “war on universities” had ended.

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Compassion Fatigue in Nurse Educators: Understanding and Addressing Emotional Burnout in Healthcare Teaching

Faculty Focus

Nursing is one of the most arduous careers due to job demands that can cause physical and emotional exhaustion, which greatly affect nursing educators. Nursing Educators are critical in shaping the future of nurses by teaching students the most up-to-date knowledge, skills, and values that they need to succeed by providing students with ways to stay motivated, feel supported, instill compassion, encourage professionalism and growth, and the development of skills for the real-life challenges of n

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Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM): Igniting Students’ Academic Development P

The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.

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College Viability TOP-bottom report: Kentucky private colleges

College Viability

I published the pdf version of the TOP-bottom report for Kentucky privates this week. The link to both is below.

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Compassion Fatigue in Nurse Educators: Understanding and Addressing Emotional Burnout in Healthcare Teaching

Faculty Focus

Nursing is one of the most arduous careers due to job demands that can cause physical and emotional exhaustion, which greatly affect nursing educators. Nursing Educators are critical in shaping the future of nurses by teaching students the most up-to-date knowledge, skills, and values that they need to succeed by providing students with ways to stay motivated, feel supported, instill compassion, encourage professionalism and growth, and the development of skills for the real-life challenges of n

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Walking down the road to Kingdom Come: some steps away from a Higher Education Funding Crisis?

HEPI

John Cater is the longest-serving Vice-Chancellor in UK higher education, having been in post since 1993. He recently announced his intention to retire next year but, in the interim, could not resist the opportunity to look at the challenges facing the sector he has been part of for five decades… The challenges facing higher education in the United Kingdom are writ large, in academia, in the specialist media and now, increasingly, spread across the pages of the national press.