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.
NEW on Wonkhe: With OfS' free speech complaints scheme opening on 1 September, Jim Dickinson finds a regulator retreating from absolutism positions on campus excpression buff.ly/n2lqi83
NEW on Wonkhe: For David Stockbridge, the foundation year offers a chance for non-traditional students to be come confident in navigating higher education buff.ly/2menbQr
NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson reads the Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment on David Miller's dismissal – and finds one half setting out what a university can't touch, and one what it still can buff.ly/qWgf9yw
NEW on Wonkhe: In contested and cautious times, cross-sector working is needed to push EDI work forward. Rachel Van Krimpen explains what this looks like in the context of research funding buff.ly/VI6HL3c
NEW on Wonkhe: International students are often treated as financial assets rather than pedagogic partners. Sumeya Loonat sets out four lenses for moving beyond the deficit model buff.ly/jnPFPMD
NEW on Wonkhe: Radhika Sharma has followed five students' experiences from the Global South and finds belonging is a design choice that the sector keeps getting wrong buff.ly/kEvRSeo
Epic trolling here from an increasingly unaccountable regulator
NEW on Wonkhe: In some residential areas, universities’ civic agendas can ring hollow. Kate Seymour presents a collaborative project which aimed to co-create hope in Fallowfield buff.ly/s50qHPp
NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson considers whether university fee rules leave students with any meaningful leverage when course delivery is disputed buff.ly/2lXZKhU
NEW on Wonkhe: Why are all the risks that students face being kept a secret? wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: Andy Dainty reflects on a new partnership across providers in Greater Manchester and sets out the importance of taking a whole-system view of skills development buff.ly/DHGaCaK
Why on earth is this on R4 referring to sexual misconduct at Cambridge as "unseemly incidents"?
NEW on Wonkhe: With curriculum reform converging on fewer, larger modules across the sector, Jim Dickinson argues that consolidation solves institutional problems while reallocating regret onto students least able to absorb it buff.ly/5xu4GGB
Every serious analysis of the future of the economy says we need a lot more B. It happens in universities. A is not an alternative to B. It is also important. Universities do not only consist of D. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
NEW on Wonkhe: Donna Whitehead makes the case that successful universities in the next decade will be those who were most willing to adapt and transform buff.ly/WnNaS0Z
NEW on Wonkhe: Through analysing what Reform UK politicians have been saying across the country, Alex Waddington and Yakub Qureshi offer advice to universities seeking to engage buff.ly/QUtBzjG
NEW on Wonkhe: Jodrell Bank Observatory could cease all observations as STFC funding cuts announced wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: However you juggle the pieces, there will always be silos within government. James Coe thinks through life after DSIT buff.ly/dudJTWC
NEW on Wonkhe: Former DSIT director of communications Abigail Morris explains what Whitehall's latest reshuffle means for universities buff.ly/zimLho1
