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MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Research is a relative newcomer to the work of English universities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But some well-regarded universities conduct little research, while some of the world’s most exalted teaching and research institutions do not call themselves universities. ” The regulator warned universities against gaming the assessment by borrowing star researchers.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 11, 2017

In January 2017, the Senate Researcher Experience Committee (REC) approved a comprehensive programme of work designed to investigate, map and enhance the postgraduate research student experience. The Senate Researcher Experience Committee (REC) acts as the Programme board and the work is a standing item on the committee agenda.

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SRHE

APRIL 25, 2023

This goes to the heart of the statute establishing the OfS, the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (HERA). There has always been intense competition between HE providers, for reputation and for the things which flow from that – students and research income – but often the competition is not overtly financial.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2025

Corporate Sponsorships: Companies like Ford Motor Company are entering into collaborative research and facility-sharing agreements with universities, creating mutual value while funding new infrastructure. students in robotics to advance mutual research priorities. UC Merced 2020 , a $1.3B and international institutions.

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University Business

MAY 25, 2023

Among those from low-income households, about 90% do not graduate within six years, according to EAB , an education consulting firm. ” The Kessler Scholars Collaborative embarked on a mission in 2017 to support this vulnerable slice of the student body at a handful of esteemed institutions, and its pilot program proved a success.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Furthermore, research suggests CA-HE is elitist ( Annetts 2018 ; Starkey 2013 ), racist ( Orr 2021 ; Tan 2021a ), and failing neurodivergent students and staff by not paying enough attention to their mental wellbeing (who are over-represented in CA-HE at around 30% in the student population, in Bacon and Bennett 2013 ; RCA 2015 ).

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 22, 2024

Academic staff, PhD students, and data scientists from the industry also joined us as consultants to guide participants during the event. Networking: During this event, volunteer consultants guide students in their teamwork analysis of the dataset, answer their questions, and provide insight about the data and analysis.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 27, 2017

In September 2016 Sally Brown , an assessment, learning and teaching in higher education consultant, was invited to speak. The most recent session in February 2017 was particularly well received by the participants. There was a general update from Susan and a chance for DoTs to highlight any issues in their school.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This was one of the key areas explored in a recent research project and discussed in a book chapter from which the findings in this blog are taken ( Raven, 2023 ). Method and approach This research gathered the views of students in the second (and final) year of their level 3 professional and applied courses.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

“Employers say, ‘It’s great that this individual has these skills, but we’ll ask our own questions to verify the learner’s knowledge,’” Kyle Albert, assistant research professor at the George Washington University Institute of Public Policy, said. “It’s a trust-but-verify situation.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 25, 2025

The University of Arizona has spent massively on marketing UAGC, as an audit that consultancy EY conducted last year revealed, a hallmark tactic of predatory for-profit institutions that dress up their junk degrees as prestigious offerings. They spend many months researching and deliberating.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 4, 2017

For that one task, the student likely needed a range of attributes such as critical thinking, decision making, research skills, effective communication, a willingness to engage, an interest in learning, and a desire to do the task well or successfully. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 15, 2017

The new Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security at the University of Edinburgh will provide world-leading research and innovation in support of global food and environmental security, sustainable rural development, and human and animal wellbeing. You can find her on Twitter @jilly_mackay Aug 15, 2017

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

I was therefore keen to play a role in developing another online, interdisciplinary course based on my experiences and interests (for example, as is shared in this video that showcases part of the senate talk on research led-learning in May 2017), in addition to the numerous skills and networks I would gain and contribute to.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

In this post, Lynsey Russell-Watts, Careers Consultant for ECA, discusses her involvement in the recent Graphic Design in a Box project. On the ‘other side’, as a careers consultant, I see things rather differently. Jan 10, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

This is the title of my PhD research. I successfully joined a research team at my School which focused on the area of my dissertation interest. This valuable experience was important for a future research career. Labake’s PhD research is exploring internationalisation of higher education and employability. Jan 13, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This follows a consultation run in the first half of 2017 which showed that there was a strong demand for more resources of this kind. Joseph Marshall Joseph Marshall is Head of Special Collections and the Centre for Research Collections at Edinburgh University Library. Dec 19, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Seeing the imperfections, assumptions and short-cuts needed to implement research into practice is revelatory to students. The careers service is directly involved in this course delivery with our school’s Careers Consultant providing valuable input during the initial stages.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Careers consultants dip into their practitioners’ toolbox to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and prompt reflections on what is – and what could be. In turn, we expect students to explore, investigate, and research; trying things out and learning from experience. PwC (2017). Designing Your Life. London: Vintage.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

To this end, the Employability Consultancy has done a lot of work revising the University of Edinburgh’s Graduate Attributes , which, at a base level, can be used as a guide towards structuring reflection. Feb 1, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

In 2016/17, Focus On took the postgraduate research (PGR) student experience as its theme, an important aspect of which was postgraduates who teach. Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Aug 10, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 7, 2017

The Leadership Group has over 400 members globally and has been developing a number of new work stream focusing on research, impact evaluation, leader and professional development among others. Mar 7, 2017 We are also planning to run the inaugural PASS/PAL/SI European Forum in Lund, Sweden in June of this year.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 25, 2017

Obviously during a PhD, as with any research, there will be restrictions about what can be openly shared. With my disclaimers in place and your students’ critical judgment skills on high alert, we’re ready for my thoughts on the value of blogging as a research student. Even during a PhD, perfection isn’t expected for everything.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

In comparison, the challenges for conducting interdisciplinary research seem to be at a lower level, for instance with the funding of a research grant, or as a student project – they are discrete and have clearly defined objectives. Furthermore, those resources of money and researchers, act as great enablers. Mar 2, 2017

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2018

Therefore, our higher education consultants at The Change Leader want to offer a series of articles that lay out where we believe higher education is going in the face of all of these challenges. In some cases, faculty members especially those who are tenured — want to focus most of their time on their research interests.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

He co-authored a 2017 report for the TIA Institute and a book, Strategic Mergers and Higher Education, published by John Hopkins Press. Additionally, most institutions dont have access to consultants with this expertise. The researchers analyzed what would create positive growth from a market capital perspective.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2017, we embarked on what seemed like the next logical step in our journey: creating a microcredential, a collection of MOOCs that, when taken together, provide the learner with deeper learning outcomes and in some cases university credit. This led us, in 2021, to undertake market research into the factors that are important to learners.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2023

Podcast Highlights The process for onboarding presidents includes hiring a search consultant , identifying a screening committee that’s representative of the university, gathering and narrowing down a pool of candidates, and bringing those candidates in for a 60- or 90-minute interview. Recommendations must also go to the president.

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SRHE

MAY 28, 2024

By Michael Shattock Editor’s note: Michael Shattock is the guru of governance studies in HE; SRHE Blog is delighted to bring you his invitation to researchers in HE to expand their work in governance – a definitive statement about the many contributions that governance research can make to our understanding of higher education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 4, 2017

A Pew Research Center poll suggested that Republicans and Democrats are divided on higher education. A Civis Analytics poll conducted in fall 2017 reported that 89 percent of the general public believed students should pursue some form of higher education after high school. Is Higher Ed Meaningful?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

Research shows that students who must incur debt to attend college have lower GPAs, more health issues both before and after graduation, are less likely to buy a house, will get married and have children later in life, are less likely to start a business, and are less entrepreneurial. Just read the book. It’s a better return on time.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

That was unsuccessful but an appeal succeeded on two grounds, ‘delegation’ and the failure of ‘publication and consultation’. First came an attempt at judicial review on a several grounds. Bloomsbury is now on the Register subject to an Ongoing Condition about student ‘continuation’ (R. Bloomsbury Institute Ltd.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

This is a reflective framework for experiential learning, where students consider their learning gains through undertaking an activity of their choice, e.g. research, work experience, volunteering. Jan 16, 2017 Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) offer another approach and way forward.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 8, 2022

April 11, 2020 by Dean Hoke – When I came back to the United States in 2017-18 I wanted to re-engage with the US university community. He participates in numerous advisory & consulting projects in the fields of international education, branding, business intelligence, and online learning.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

There is an unprecedented opportunity for UUK to reset the terms of engagement between government and universities, by asserting a new and better interpretation of what the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 should mean. As part of its response to the consultation, UUK has also raised issues with using minimum entry requirements.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

From 2017 to 2022, he was vice chair and director of the education committee on the board of Messmer Catholic Schools, a K12 network of Catholic schools serving Milwaukee’s north and west sides. Nicklow’s extensive STEM research background is a sensible fit for the school on the “Space Coast.”

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