Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag leads us to a very significant figure for universities This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag leads us to a very significant figure for universities

Higher Education 331

Higher Education University Education 331

Wonkhe

JANUARY 28, 2024

As allegations of unfairness in university admissions stack up, Jim Dickinson argues that empathy and understanding should replace defensiveness when the mud is slung The post Maybe higher education is just as unfair as it seems appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 355

Higher Education Education University 355

Wonkhe

AUGUST 8, 2024

Have higher education providers got better at explaining the costs that students will face while at university? Jim Dickinson whiles away the hours to find out The post The sector is still struggling to explain the costs of higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 340

Higher Education Education Students University 340

Wonkhe

JULY 11, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag brings medieval matters in a modern context The post Higher education postcard: De Montfort University appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 239

Higher Education Education University 239

Wonkhe

JANUARY 4, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows that independent higher education is not a new thing The post Higher education postcard: University Hall Buckland appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 225

Higher Education Education University 225

Wonkhe

MARCH 14, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag shows us that progress is not always linear The post Higher education postcard: University of Chichester appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 228

Higher Education Education University 228

Wonkhe

APRIL 11, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag brings you the world’s most unusual university The post Higher education postcard: Bob Jones University appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 223

Higher Education Education University 223

Wonkhe

JUNE 27, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to 1960s plate glass and concrete The post Higher education postcard: University of Warwick appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 223

Higher Education Education University 223

Wonkhe

JUNE 6, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag takes us to the home of the Ducks The post Higher education postcard: University of Oregon appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 223

Higher Education Education University 223

Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag takes us back to that London This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag takes us back to that London

Higher Education 319

Higher Education Education University 319

Wonkhe

APRIL 18, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag helps tell the story of medical education in London The post Higher education postcard: St George’s, University of London appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 235

Higher Education Education University 235

Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag brings smiling student sportsmen – and some of their life stories The post Higher education postcard: University of Leeds lacrosse appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 225

Higher Education Education University Students 225

Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

And Wolverhampton The post Higher education postcard: University of Cape Coast appeared first on Wonkhe. This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag takes us to Ghana.

Higher Education 223

Higher Education Education University 223

Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag tells of football, argumentative professors and an outbreak of poetry The post Higher education postcard: Marischal College, University of Aberdeen appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 231

Higher Education Education College University 231

Wonkhe

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It's not easy for refugees to access higher education. Liam Carson sets out what universities can do to help. The post How can we support refugees into higher education? appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 290

Higher Education Education University 290

Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag is made with steel The post Higher education postcard: Sheffield Hallam University appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 230

Higher Education Education University 230

Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Graduates are looking for interesting jobs and universities are looking to recruit a diverse workforce. Emily Owen asks whether professional services at universities should be looking to recruit recent graduates The post Why graduates should work in higher education professional services appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 306

Higher Education Education Recruitment University 306

Wonkhe

JULY 16, 2024

Superficial university wellbeing initiatives mask deeper issues. Helen Rimmer argues that kindness should be a central part of policy and culture instead The post Against carewashing in higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 242

Higher Education Education Policy University 242

Wonkhe

AUGUST 26, 2024

Jim Dickinson applies the idea of enshittification to universities - and wonders what it would take to halt it Once you lock in users and suppliers, to reduce costs to shareholders you make the user experience worse.

Higher Education 349

Higher Education Education University Students 349

Wonkhe

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to some des res on Aotearoa’s south island The post Higher education postcard: University of Otago appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 221

Higher Education Education University 221

Wonkhe

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This weeks card from Hugh Jones postbag prompts the question: what exactly does a university chancellor do? This weeks card from Hugh Jones postbag prompts the question: what exactly does a university chancellor do?

Higher Education 214

Higher Education University Education 214

Wonkhe

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag shows the cutting edge of 1970s media training The post Higher education postcard: Leeds Trinity University redux appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 221

Higher Education Education University 221

Wonkhe

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to Scotland’s newest university The post Higher education postcard: University of the Highlands and Islands appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 228

Higher Education Education University 228

Wonkhe

APRIL 21, 2024

The Festival of Higher Education is back in November 2024, brought to you by Wonkhe and the University of London. Mark Leach and Alistair Jarvis ponder the strategic questions facing higher education The post Seven questions we’ll be debating at the 2024 Festival of Higher Education appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 241

Higher Education Education University Leadership 241

MindMax

JULY 26, 2023

The Right Foot of Higher Education Marketing Colleges and universities tend to rely too heavily on their right foot. If they’re considering a graduate or continuing education program, they may have even attended the school as undergraduates. Your left foot offers far more opportunity for growth.

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Higher Education Education Schooling Continuing Education 244

Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 19, 2024

The answer lies in how colleges and universities first developed across the country, according to one consolidation expert.

Higher Education 331

Higher Education Education College University 331

Wonkhe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As the Office for Students publishes ratings from the Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF panel chair and Vice Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University Chris Husbands reflects on the new exercise The post Celebrating excellence in higher education with TEF 2023 appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 237

Higher Education Education Students University 237

Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

New evidence shows how universities that commit to pay the Living Wage are benefitting their lowest paid staff. The research team lays it out The post The impact of the Living Wage in higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 244

Higher Education Education University 244

Wonkhe

APRIL 26, 2024

Kicking off a new series on what we can learn from how General Election manifestos have engaged with higher education, Adam Matthews reflects on the changing political fortunes of universities in the past 80 years The post How higher education has showed up in General Election manifestos since 1945 appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 231

Higher Education Education University 231

Wonkhe

JULY 3, 2024

Debbie McVitty gallops through the final decade of our manifestos series with the reflection that even when it's been uncomfortable for HE, the political endorsement of the value of universities has been more consistently present than not The post Higher education in general election manifestos – the 2010s appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 211

Higher Education Education University 211

Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Employer pension contributions into the Teacher's Pension Scheme will cost many universities resource they don't have. The post There is another big pensions problem in higher education appeared first on Wonkhe. David Kernohan runs the numbers.

Higher Education 227

Higher Education Education University 227

Wonkhe

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows just how straightforward our ancient universities can be

Higher Education 214

Higher Education Education University 214

Wonkhe

JUNE 9, 2024

Space may be the final frontier – but with a bit more coordinated investment, Bleddyn Bowen and Paul Angrave argue UK universities could be even further ahead The post The astropolitics of higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 176

Higher Education Education University 176

Wonkhe

MARCH 20, 2023

Last week’s Budget abolished the limit on how much can be built up in a pensions pot without extra tax charges – and the change will affect some university staff. Paul Curran examines the window of opportunity The post Removing the lifetime allowance cap on pensions has big implications for higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.

Higher Education 245

Higher Education Education University 245

Wonkhe

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows that not all polytechnics became universities This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows that not all polytechnics became universities

Higher Education 214

Higher Education Education University 214

Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

University rankings need to change to be relevant and useful to today's diverse world of higher education. Elizabeth Gadd offers some friendly advice The post Free advice to university rankers appeared first on Wonkhe.

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University Ranking University Higher Education Education 363

Wonkhe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Adam Matthews interrogates whether a "meritocratic" view of society, that favours elite higher education as the most legitimate form of aspiration, has fuelled social division in the UK

University 331

University Higher Education Education 331