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Cardiff Metropolitan University becomes first UK higher education institution to pledge no investments in border violence

HEPI

Today, Cardiff Metropolitan University made a landmark announcement in support of migrants’ rights by approving a policy to never invest in companies complicit in violence against people migrating and seeking sanctuary. This is the first time a UK university has aligned investment policy with immigration justice.

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Painting and shaping Learning Landscapes with Assemblages in mind

SRHE

In this response, I want to do three things: pick and connect some particularly fruitful points from each talk – there were many, so this is hard; comment on assemblages and assemblage thinking in relation to current and future learning arrangements, and segue into the practical work of realising better spaces for learning in better universities.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Encourage or lead a course/subject group activity where colleagues start by looking at how they use their own spaces, then visit other parts of their university. For example, universities create specific spaces with the aim of helping to build a sense of community but then impose rules on how those spaces can be used.

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How do we make international recruitment more efficient?

The PIE News

Stanford University management academic, Professor Ramesh Johari , said in 2023 that “it’s very hard to think about a human business endeavour that has not been disrupted by the potential for transactions to take place online”. But is this enough scrutiny for cost centres that regularly exceed 5% of total spends for universities?

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Inside Higher Ed

Image: An enrollment surge at Tennessee State University combined with a lack of student housing led to a scathing comptroller’s report calling for a change in the historically Black university’s leadership. Lowe voted in favor of the one-year extension. million, from $5.2 million the previous year.