by Paul Temple
“Fancy coming along to a session with our creative team?” said my friend who works in advertising.
“Sure”, I replied. “Sounds fun. Who’s the client?” Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Academia: the beautiful game ?
By Rob Cuthbert
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”
(Bill Shankly, former manager of Liverpool Football Club)
The SRHE 2018 Research Conference in December was full of academics with a passion which Bill Shankly would have recognised. Perhaps not all the kind of people who would have taken their partner on a birthday outing to see Rochdale reserves on a rainy weekday evening, but certainly many of the kind of people who went home from the conference for a Christmas they would fill with reading, writing and reviewing. Academia and football are both common pursuits worldwide; can we make something of the parallels? Continue reading
What is a university?
by Marcia Devlin
The right to use the term ‘University’ is under examination in Australia. In the current Australian higher education sector, there are distinctions between providers that may label themselves as a ‘University’ and those who are a non-university ‘Higher Education Provider’.
Currently, the right to use the term ‘University’ is restricted Continue reading
Metrics in higher education: technologies and subjectivities
by Roland Bloch and Catherine O’Connell
The changing shape of higher education and consequent changes in the nature of academic labour, employment conditions and career trajectories were significant Continue reading
Learning gain expectations – the parental perspective
By Valerie Anderson
Issues of ‘learning gain’ increasingly arise from opinions and concerns about ‘value for money’ in higher education. In what some believe is an over-supplied graduate labour market, the discourse of employability also looms large as a feature of this discussion. Continue reading
A work in progress: support for refugees on their way to German higher education
by Jana Berg
Before 2015 it can be assumed that (some) refugees had already been studying in Germany, but they were generally not addressed by specific offers. This changed after 2015, when the number of asylum applications peaked in Germany. Continue reading
Space for self-affirmation? Working class student officers in UK students’ unions
by Ruth Squire
In late 2016 the actions of students at one Oxford college caused a small flurry of media attention in the English national press Continue reading
