SRHE News and the SRHE Blog aim to comment on recent events, publications, activities and issues in a journalistic but scholarly way, allowing more human interest and unsupported speculation than any self-respecting journal, but never forgetting its academic audience and their concern for the professional niceties. SRHE News is available to SRHE members only. The SRHE Blog is freely available but its intended audience is academic researchers in HE worldwide, HE policymakers and managers, and other academics and professional staff in HE and related agencies.The SRHE blog is now read in more than 100 countries. We want the blogsite to be a valuable source of information about and gateway to new research into higher education, of interest to the global academic community of researchers into HE.
To suggest topics for inclusion in future issues of SRHE News, to contribute to the Blog, or to volunteer a regular contribution, contact rob.cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk or rob.gresham@srhe.ac.uk. We aim to be legal, decent, honest, truthful, opinionated and informed by scholarship. We identify named individuals with their employing institutions. News content is written by the editor except where authors are identified or sources are acknowledged.
Guidelines for the Blog: anything from 600-1500 words is fine (longer if it needs to be, but prolixity will be treated ruthlessly). Submissions should be scholarly but accessible for people not expert in the discipline; charts/graphs may be included if it helps. Submissions should be aware of/grounded in evidence from the relevant literature and should address general issues likely to be of interest to the blog readership, rather than indulge in personal anecdotes or criticisms. Blogs may respond to current issues in HE worldwide, summarise or provide a critique of research in a particular area, share experiences of conducting research into HE, report on the author’s/authors’ own research or recent publication(s), and so on. Any use of AI in the preparation of blogs should be reported at the time of submission, including specifying the tool used and what it has been used for. Authors must check everything that AI suggests, including any data, references or information.
There are no deadlines, except where topicality demands rapid publication. Blogs, mostly in brief, are normally featured in SRHE News as well. Normally it is possible to publish a blog within 2-3 weeks from it being agreed in final form. Text should be in Microsoft Word, in any format. References should as far as possible be embedded as URLs in the text, to avoid including a long list at the end. Blog titles should be as short, straightforward, and direct as possible. When a final version is agreed it will normally include a photograph of the author and a few sentences of biographical career detail.
The views expressed on the SRHE Blog are those of the individual authors and commenters, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), its trustees or staff. Authors are responsible for the content of their posts, including the accuracy of facts, data and references, and for obtaining permission to use any third-party material. While we take care in editing posts, SRHE cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided, and readers should consult original sources where appropriate. Comments are moderated, and SRHE reserves the right to edit, decline or remove any comment, at its discretion and without notice, that it considers off-topic, offensive, defamatory, unlawful or otherwise inappropriate. To raise a concern about any content, please contact srhe@srhe.ac.uk .
Unless otherwise stated, articles published on the SRHE Blog are © the author(s) and are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 This licence does not apply to images or other third-party material, which remain subject to their original terms. When reusing content, please credit the author, title, SRHE Blog, date of publication and URL.
Comments and suggested additions to editorial policy are welcome.