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  • Using Collaboration as a Catalyst for Change in the Research Ecosystem

    30 March 2022 by Nishan Canagarajah

    This blog was written by Professor Nishan Canagarajah, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester and one of the commissioners of the TALENT Commission. In May, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) results will be published. The REF assesses and benchmarks the quality of the UK’s higher education research impact and outputs. …

  • To professionalise, or not to professionalise, that is (part of) the question

    29 March 2022 by Stacey Mottershaw and Gareth Bramley

    This blog was written by Stacey Mottershaw, Lecturer and Faculty Director of Taught Student Social Mobility at Leeds University Business School and Gareth Bramley, Senior Tutor at the University of Law. Stacey and Gareth are currently in the second year of the EdD programme at the University of Sheffield.  The…

  • UUK’s Code of Practice on Fair Admissions is Welcome, but There Are Deeper Issues

    28 March 2022 by Graham Galbraith

    This blog was written by Professor Graham Galbraith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. Today, Universities UK (UUK) publishes the list of universities that have signed its new Code of Practice on fair admissions. As my University’s name is on the list, I want to congratulate UUK (and GuildHE) for taking…

  • Employability Blog Series: Modifying the Journey to Graduate Employment through Changes to Work-Based Learning

    25 March 2022 by Catherine O’Connor

    The fourth in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Professor Catherine O’Connor, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and Experience, Leeds Trinity University. There has been an ever-sharper focus from Government that a degree should mean a transition to highly-skilled employment. This was reinforced in late November 2021 with the announcement that…

  • ***New*** English Social Mobility Index for 2022

    24 March 2022 by David Phoenix

    The blog below, written by Professor David Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University (LSBU), includes the results of the 2022 Social Mobility Index. We should do more to celebrate those universities which make a contribution to real social mobility – that means getting on, not just getting in. This…

  • Shining a Light on Taught Postgraduate Student Outcomes

    21 March 2022 by Susan Smith

    This blog was contributed by Dr Susan Smith, Associate Dean (Education and Students) at the University of Sussex Business School. Taught postgraduate programmes are increasingly popular in the UK with 628,000 enrolments in 2020/21 and they now comprise 27 per cent of annual enrolments to higher education. The largest contributor to this…

  • Employability Blog Series: Reflections on Aston-based research on employability and its effect on policy and practice

    18 March 2022 by Helen Higson

    The third in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Professor Helen Higson, Associate Dean for Accreditations at Aston University. Aston University has been known for the transformational effect that it has on students since it became a university in 1966.  The University grew from an institution (the Birmingham Municipal Technical…

  • Great expectations

    17 March 2022 by Aimee Kleinman and Tim Landucci

    This blog was written by Aimee Kleinman and Tim Landucci, Education Marketing Consultants at SMRS. SMRS is a marketing agency that works with universities on strategic marketing and consultancy. Aimee and Tim are happy to discuss their research via via the following address: [email protected]. SMRS is also on Twitter @smrsltd. How have young people…