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Beating the Binary
The diversity of provision, research and innovation and student mix epitomises the qualities that the International Association of Universities espouses The International Association of Universities,...
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More on MOOCs
Back in March, I wrote a post about my experience in registering for, and completing, one of the University of Edinburgh’s inaugural MOOCs on the Coursera platform: E-Learning and Digital Cultures. A...
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Rubbing Minds Together
William G Bowen, Higher Education in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press, 2013. Stanford University Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Daphne Koller, co-founder of Cousera, sees the future of...
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Slowly Radical
Thomas Docherty is one of our most thoughtful commentators on universities today, engaging with key issues as a scholar and as a public intellectual. In a recent essay in Times Higher Education he...
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Getting it Right in the Valleys
Merthyr Tydfil, once the largest town in Wales, was at the heart of the iron and coal industries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and at the centre of the Heads of the Valleys – the districts...
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Languages
There has been a significant decline in language study at both GCSE and A-level since the removal of compulsory study of a foreign language in 2004 Our decision to phase out Modern and Foreign Language...
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The Changing Face of Law
While Law is one of the founding professions of our society, in recent years the profession has also been one of the most rapidly changing. Just how fast became clear to me in a revealing discussion...
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Future Construction
In the rapidly changing world of international higher education there’s a growing demand for high quality, flexible, qualifications that meet the needs of busy professionals, many of whom are in...
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#Disruption
It’s a sign of how fast the digital world moves that Apple has only just started printing a hash tag on their MacBook keyboards (and its still two moves away from the main keyboard display on the...
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Disruptive Curriculation
Viva the Manchester students who are demanding a new curriculum in Economics. After all, before 2008 this was a field of enquiry that embraced perpetual economic growth. Many of the strands of...
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