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It represents my personal reflections of working in UK highereducation (HE) professionalservices roles and simultaneously gaining research experience through a Masters and Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD).
Sacramento State has announced the creation of the Sacramento State Native American College —a new university initiative aimed at advancing Native-based education and creating pathways for academic and professionalservice.
She has demonstrated tireless professionalservice in complex administrative roles while maintaining an active research agenda.” Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in student affairs. Patterson-Stephens serves on the MCT board of directors.
compared to -39.0%), and miscellaneous professionalservices (5.8% In contrast, industries with newly positive projections include miscellaneous manufacturing (20.3% this year compared to -4.6% last year), utilities (0.3% compared to -16.6%). See Figure 2.)
National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.
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 highereducation.
While valuable lessons remain to be learned about digital forms of education, it’s also important to reflect on how the pandemic has been seized by some organisations as an opportunity for HE reform.
I know many people in professionalservices jobs at the university who have been off sick with stress. I have co-workers who are so snowed under with their workload that they’re afraid to strike lest they come back to an even larger mountain of work. Continue reading.
As John Warner has explained in Slate , this “crisis” of peer review is linked to a much bigger one—namely, the ever-deepening crisis in the humanities and highereducation more broadly. Updates to the way we manage peer review cannot solve larger crises in highereducation.
But “it seems likely that the peculiar nature of highereducation actively encourages particular kinds of bullying” ( Tight, 2023 , p123) and research continues to highlight that bullying in UK and international HE remains rife ( Tight, 2023 ). She is the editor of the Research into HigherEducation Abstracts journal.
As James Arvanitakis and David J Hornsby (2016) define them in Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of HigherEducation , Citizen Scholars are students who apply discipline-specific knowledge in order to develop and support their community and wider society. References Arvanitakis, J., Hornsby, editors. Dec 18, 2019
For further reading about co-creation of the curriculum and students as partners in learning and teaching, I would recommend the following journals: International Journal for Students as Partners Journal of Educational Partnership, Innovation and Change Teaching and Learning Together in HigherEducation References Bovill, C., & Bulley, C.
I will highlight some of my own reflections on promising areas for institutional action based on my policy and practice work within highereducation. Mitigating Barriers.
This post belongs to the Hot Topic theme: Critical insights into contemporary issues in HigherEducation. This is especially true for international students, whose families have often invested significantly in their education expecting them to provide financial support to their families after graduation.
This post belongs to the Hot Topic theme: Critical insights into contemporary issues in HigherEducation. This is especially true for international students, whose families have often invested significantly in their education expecting them to provide financial support to their families after graduation.
This triple whammy of innovation has placed considerable demands on academic staff, students, and professionalservice colleagues as we try to bridge gaps and make connections between various fields of study in a complex web of university structures and processes. Jul 4, 2023
Next, Northampton’s IR and IE staff partnered with Edify’s professionalservices team to build exports in Edify that matched every form field and reporting requirement for both IPEDS and the Pennsylvania state reporting agency, PIMS. If done right, the three tips above will free up staff capacity.
Some applicants find this process so challenging that they turn to a range of paid services that help them to learn how to contact a potential doctoral supervisor or develop a research proposal. James’ research interests include doctoral education and the academic profession, highereducation internationalisation and academic mobilities.
Edify is EAB’s education data and analytics solution built for highereducation. In addition to the technology, Edify partners can expand their team’s capacity using professionalservice hours which leverage EAB’s skills and expertise, like data science and data engineering.
At the same time, much of the sector is seeing an increase in cases of academic misconduct, and colleagues report increasing concerns about whether students are ‘ready’ for learning in HigherEducation. We didn’t, and neither will our own students. Let’s give them a chance to excel, and let them delight us with their thoughts.
The benefit of the SRHE and its Blog has been in providing a sense of community for those who have to and do think about the purpose, the benefits and the travails of highereducation. SRHE would then be reaching out to the field of the political economy of highereducation and there is perhaps a dearth of such research.
ProfessionalServices staff reported challenges around providing training in how to use central technologies, and in procurement. Evidently, the uncertainty of the situation made planning extremely difficult. “ You don’t know what you don’t know.” Academic staff were not the only ones finding planning particularly difficult.
by Brett Bligh, Sue Beckingham, Lesley Gourlay, and Julianne K Viola SRHE’s ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in highereducation’ symposium series, delivered with Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson, aims to foster continuous dialogue around learning spaces.
She will share labor market information and how it can help institutions of highereducation advance strategic priorities. Daphne Dor-Ner (07:41.666) Yeah, no, I think I understand the transactional criticism and I understand that increasingly it is what learners are looking for from their highereducation experience.
In particular, understanding access, participation and inclusion for those who align with the different protected characteristics (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) has been of interest to academic research, given various political movements to widen access to highereducation.
Our Doctoral College ‘Team’ now counts over 200 committed members of staff from across the University (from Schools, Colleges and professionalservices). Emerging Directions in Doctoral Education 2016 Innovations in HigherEducation Teaching and Learning. and Stockley D. 6 Accessible here: [link] Lee A.
Our Doctoral College ‘Team’ now counts over 200 committed members of staff from across the University (from Schools, Colleges and professionalservices). Emerging Directions in Doctoral Education 2016 Innovations in HigherEducation Teaching and Learning. and Stockley D. 6 Accessible here: [link] Lee A.
Rachel Reeds short but comprehensive book, Surviving and Thriving in HigherEducationProfessionalServices: a guide to success (Routledge, 2025), is both an instruction manual for the professionals it was written for and an illuminating account of what they do for the academics and students who benefit.
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