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New HERG Blogpost just published. blogs.ed.ac.uk/higher_educati… 'When universities prioritise ideology over academic rigour, it leads to censorship, biased research, and a lack of intellectual diversity.'

We need to be more creative in delivering PGT offerings to attract UK dom applicants as well as providing relevant business and industry skills needed👇

Interesting piece on who to blame for the precarity and uncertainty that academics piece theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Did you think that parent engagement only happens when children are young? Not really! Do not miss our February 25 webinar School of Education at 12pm ET/5pm GMT Parent and Family Engagement in Higher Education: Considerations for Research and Practice bit.ly/parentsinHE

One of the biggest problems I see in unsuccessful manuscripts is reinventing the wheel. Authors discuss a "new" finding or concept, but it's not new--it's well established in the lit. But they've not read the lit.

No direct experience of these apps but sounds like they may be useful?

The Researcher Education and Development Scholarship Conference has launched its new website. You can to subscribe to receive emails by using the box in the left-hand side bar on the home page and the blog looks very useful. redsconference.co.uk

My upcoming talk in Edinburgh. Online participation is possible.

Really excited about this project! Looking for teachers in Scotland and Canada to do an online interview for Learning to engage with parents: Lifelong teacher professional development for parent engagement. If interested, send me an email to [email protected]

An important explanation of differences between parent engagement and parent involvement journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08… Thank you to Ann Ishimaru for highlighting the roots of this discussion in Dennis Shirley 1997 book!

🚨Breaking🚨 Ministers confirm UK Research and Innovation budget will fall. Funding agency’s allocation drops by £300m for 2025-26, despite rising R&D spending at science department. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res…

Questionnaire on attitudes of academic staff towards the use of GenAI in learning and teaching now open.

‘A hard rain is going to fall on universities… The days of the unaccountable ivory tower are over.’ ‘It’s reducing and simplifying complexities to a single soundbite and trying to bully people in an argument doesn’t seem a satisfactory way of doing it.’ thetimes.com/uk/education/a…

HERG was delighted to host visitors from Toledo University - students and faculty on the PhD Higher Education Administration and Policy programme Moray House School of Education and Sport

Are you a care experienced adult (16+ years) or the supporter of care experienced children/adults in Scotland (e.g. foster parent)? If so, we invite you to come to one of our ‘Sibling Cafes’ in May (in-person or an online). To sign up and for more info: edin.ac/4cIYdcs

Our colleagues' survey on university teachers' views on use of GenAI - potential harms and benefits is open, grateful for retweets HERDSA Conference Sussex CHEER @OISEUoT_CIHE HESIG British Council Higher Education Center for International Higher Education Royal Society of Edinburgh app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/un…

Latest blog from HERG on what counts as success in PhD - blogs.ed.ac.uk/higher_educati…

“young people from ethnic minority backgrounds with high school attainment are slightly more likely to go to university than high attainers from white British backgrounds, lower attainers from ethnic minority backgrounds are considerably more likely to” wonkhe.com/blogs/causes-a…

🥳 NEW PAPER🥳 We propose a reflexivity model grounded in ethics of care to navigate researcher vulnerabilities—emotional, ethical & professional. 😉 the paper is not exhaustive but we hope it speaks to you🙏🏻 degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…

Please help our colleague with this research project if you teach in any university, anywhere in the world.