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Steven Jones

@stevenjones_mcr

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Professor of HE, #PFHEA, @EducationUoM
Author: Universities Under Fire
@CDBUni, @Burnage_Academy
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linkhttps://hewatch.wordpress.com/ calendar_today28-11-2012 11:01:50

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New piece for SRHE by Josh Patel: "It's hard to avoid a sense of resentment every time I check (mainly to satisfy a grim curiosity) my rapidly ballooning student debt total on the SLC website. I will likely be making payments until 2047." srheblog.com/2024/09/03/deb…

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"Industry funding has focused academic climate research toward narrow technological fixes and 'false' solutions. This draws attention, time and resources away from more systemic and structural social and economic changes that would phase out fossil fuels." theconversation.com/how-the-oil-an…

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"From the Boardroom to the Classroom" - looking forward to speaking at this University of Sunderland conference tomorrow, and helping to build a critical research agenda around governance cultures and practices across educational sectors. stoneking.co.uk/https%3A/www.s…

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The call for reform of "administrative and back-office functions" may be particularly exasperating for colleagues who have been subject to restructure upon restructure in the pursuit of efficiency over recent years. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Proud to be associated with Burnage Academy for Boys, initially as a governor and more recently as a trustee. Over many years, and sometimes against the odds, its caring staff have fostered students' curiosity and won the trust of its community. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/special-featur…

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I've written before about the right's obsession with students who achieve DDD at A-level and then proceed to do well at university. But the headlines keep coming...

I've written before about the right's obsession with students who achieve DDD at A-level and then proceed to do well at university. But the headlines keep coming...
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“My hunch is that we’re going to learn more from engaging with the global universities of the South, frankly, than we will be by signing yet another agreement with Harvard or MIT...” timeshighereducation.com/news/western-u…

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"De-commodifying HE and rebalancing power and resources are the only long-term solutions if we truly want a progressive system. This will never be imposed from the top. As a class, the ruling elite simply aren’t interested in it." (Sol Gamsu for Wonkhe) wonkhe.com/blogs/hope-for…

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"The push for debt forgiveness reflects not just an ideological critique of neoliberal policies but the frustrations of millions of graduates struggling under the weight of unmanageable debt." (Hector Rios-Jara for SRHE). srheblog.com/2024/10/10/why…

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Interesting, just-published piece by Crook, Satchwell & Dodding: "We esp. want to draw attention to young people’s assertions that it is recognition of their talents and interests from adults, rather than performance, which supports their progression." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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"Those at more prestigious schools have a greater understanding of degree apprenticeships and are better prepared to meet the requirements" - i.e. those at more prestigious schools have new fields in which to exchange their symbolic & economic capitals. wonkhe.com/blogs/whether-…

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Can't remember the last time any government presented HE policy without disparaging HE ("it is time to raise the bar on teaching standards, to improve our world-leading reputation, and drive out poor practice"). hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-1…

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I spent four happy years working at @UCLan. Saddening to see valuable and well-taught courses now under threat. Equally saddening is that staff "only by chance found out when at an open day meeting they were told not to advertise the at-risk courses". lep.co.uk/education/were…

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This Sonia Sodha piece offers a relentlessly outcome-driven, instrumentalist take on higher education, but the claim that "there is an extraordinary lack of transparency about how this money [university income] is spent" is hard to refute. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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New Higher Education Policy Institute piece by @TomFryer4, Dr Bowen Zhang 张博文 and me, promoting a tool that can be used by unis to assess the transparency of their UCAS #personalstatement guidance, and sharing examples of best practice as we transition to a different approach. hepi.ac.uk/2024/11/13/enh…

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Important The Sutton Trust report authored by Erica H-W, Dave O'Brien, Dr Orian Brook and Mark Taylor exposing the "huge class imbalance" in access to creative degrees at UK universities. suttontrust.com/our-research/a…

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New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by Dr Sadia Habib (Dr Sadia Habib) and me, with thanks to Manchester University Press, esp. commissioning editor Laura Swift 🦇. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch through Bluesky or email if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/univers…

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Introducing: University Reimagined A new #HigherEducation book series offering a home for fresh ideas about higher ed, & innovative solutions to the challenges it faces. Steven Jones Dr Sadia Habib Laura Swift 🦇 Proposals now OPEN! Find out more 👇

Introducing: University Reimagined

A new #HigherEducation book series offering a home for fresh ideas about higher ed, & innovative solutions to the challenges it faces. 

<a href="/StevenJones_MCR/">Steven Jones</a> <a href="/educ_research/">Dr Sadia Habib</a> <a href="/lauramswift/">Laura Swift 🦇</a> 

Proposals now OPEN! Find out more 👇