Jim Dickinson
@jimdickinson.bsky.social
Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.
It’s Korvapuustipäivä in Finland and Kanelsbullens Dag in Sweden, which is to say Cinnamon Bun Day! I happen to have a recipe for Swedish Cinnamon Buns, so of course it has to be #RecipeOfTheDay www.nigella.com/recipes/swed...
Swedish Cinnamon Buns
Swedish Cinnamon Buns are not radically different from other cinnamon buns (and do see my Norwegian Cinnamon Buns), but they do diverge in one fundamental way: rather than having the fluffiness of, sa...
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Universities to disabled students: Have extra time on everything every time Also universities to disabled students: Get the degree done in 3 years like everyone else We see the problem here, yes?
All day long all I've heard is spurious theories about the NEETs rise. None of which are the obvious answer... wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
I can't find any other way to describe this pathetic piece of work than this: it shows utter contempt for students www.gov.uk/government/p...
Student accommodation: statement of expectations
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NEW on Wonkhe: Richard Mills and Edward Briggs have supported mergers across higher education and beyond. Here's what they've learned about what makes them work – and what makes them fall apart wonkhe.com/blogs/a-fiel...
NEW on Wonkhe: The Future Framework has measured the pressure on Scottish universities. Vicki Stott sets out how one alliance is testing whether autonomy and system-scale collaboration can coexist wonkhe.com/blogs/if-sco...
NEW on Wonkhe: The voter consensus forming around Burnham’s education agenda has little time for universities wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: Nic Beech and Clare Peddie outline the Quality Assurance Agency’s new advice and guidance chapters for the revised UK Quality Code wonkhe.com/blogs/theres...
NEW on Wonkhe: Madeleine Pownall and Mary Hausfeld call for research teams to be more explicit, equitable, and reflective about how they assign scholarly credit wonkhe.com/blogs/conver...
NEW on Wonkhe: Billy Wong and Zach Spire look at how the spaces of university signal who belongs, and who is expected to already know the rules wonkhe.com/blogs/before...
NEW on Wonkhe: Stephen Isherwood explains that despite the challenges of measuring career outcomes, they remain central to student interests, value for money and informed choice wonkhe.com/blogs/why-ha...
Very good and provocative as ever by @jimdickinson.bsky.social. We're definitely upping our game this year, condensing our talks into three key points about representation, community and support. Still much to do to better explain relevance, I suspect. wonkhe.com/blogs-sus/ho...
How to deliver a terrible freshers induction talk
As sabbs take the stage for induction week, Jim Dickinson offers a guide to delivering the SU slot so that nobody remembers a word of it
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NEW on Wonkhe: Annie Bell and Damayanti Chatterjee present new modelling that explores not just the potential for growth in international student numbers, but also whether that growth would be stable buff.ly/vhm0Vdl
NEW on Wonkhe: How does our market based higher education system in England work - as a market? David Kernohan gets into the detail buff.ly/vGhAwdY
NEW on Wonkhe: When a far-right march was planned near her flat, her university said nothing. Cynthia Keza Birikundavyi argues that setting a threshold for communication is an administrative adjustment, not a political act buff.ly/5lpmG4O
NEW on Wonkhe: Last seen around the time of the Augar review, KPMG has updated work on the costs of teaching. DK finds evidence of cost cutting everywhere buff.ly/D0cu2Xu
NEW on Wonkhe: Soheil Davari and Rashaad Shabab argue that a joined-up curriculum doesn't happen by accident, someone needs to actively hold the pieces together buff.ly/VTmQPuV
NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag is about a merger to create a new university in the south east buff.ly/OMDTLRC
NEW on Wonkhe: Students feel free to speak – unless they’re training to be doctors wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: Luke Green and Liz Shutt make the case that to make devolution a success, civic universities need to partner more and lead less buff.ly/iEfF0ul
NEW on Wonkhe: Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS's consultation on the free speech conditions of registration buff.ly/iCV7Ngs
NEW on Wonkhe: With Washington's Supreme Court finding a university owed a duty over a fraternity hazing death, Bob Abrahart argues England's duty of care debate has skipped the prior question of what the university-student relationship actually is buff.ly/NgUvffL
NEW on Wonkhe: Staff to student ratios explain far less about the student experience than we assume wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: Panos Sousounis argues that if science diplomacy is shaping who UK universities partner with, international strategy teams need three separate assessments running simultaneously buff.ly/8buLJ5r
NEW on Wonkhe: Jo Nuckley explains why responding to reports of harassment and sexual misconduct calls for a different kind of fairness buff.ly/lGeo4KO
NEW on Wonkhe: As the UK prepares to rejoin Erasmus+ at around £570 million a year, Jim Dickinson argues that the sector's five-year record of underspending mobility money should worry everyone – and that the domestic version of the problem is bigger buff.ly/Iq88LKn
university staff need no qualifications in teaching but sure, start here Vikki
Vikki Slade MP@vikkislademp.bsky.social · 3w ago💈 Today is the first reading of my Presentation Bill seeking mandatory registration for all hairdressers and barbershops in England. The Bill has genuine cross-party support and was developed on the back of an excellent Parliamentary event, co-hosted by local barber Mike Taylor...
