by CDBU Admin | Nov 4, 2019 | Guest blog, Marketisation, Uncategorized, Workplace stress
A huge rise in mental health referrals amongst academics is the result of increasingly stressful working conditions, argues researcher and independent scholar Liz Morrish It is often said that lecturers’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions. My...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 4, 2019 | Guest blog, TEF, Uncategorized, Widening access
The marketisation of higher education combined with the government’s efforts to regulate it has led to the worst of both worlds, argues Professor Norman Gowar, former principal of Royal Holloway, University of London Since I am long retired I cannot take part in the...
by CDBU Admin | Nov 22, 2018 | Brexit, Guest blog, Uncategorized
Guest post: The uncertainty over the status of EU nationals following Brexit could lead to many EU academics leaving the UK. The result will be a less culturally rich landscape in our universities, argues Ashlie Rowan, a political correspondent at the Immigration...
by CDBU Admin | Nov 13, 2018 | Guest blog, Part-time students, Uncategorized, University funding, University governance, Widening access
When the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester was threatened with closure, a campaign was launched to re-open it as a community-owned college. Founder member Dr Miriam Gill looks forward to a brighter future for adult education in the...
by CDBU Admin | Oct 25, 2018 | Book review, Guest blog, Uncategorized, Widening access
Patrick Ainley welcomes a book that rethinks the purpose of a university – and offers some radical suggestions of his own Everyone knows who universities are for. As another book in the Bristol University/ Policy Press shorts series concludes: ‘The English education...
by CDBU Admin | Oct 8, 2018 | Guest blog, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding, Widening access
Discussions about student funding don’t have to revolve around tuition fees, argue Josie McLellan, Richard Pettigrew and Tom Sperlinger. Instead we should start by asking fundamental questions about the purpose of a university education Debates about higher...
