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A day in the life: André Spicer
How long have you been in your job? I have been a professor at The Business School for nine years,…
17th April 2021
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Catering & hospitality
Soul food: catering for today’s student
Universities and higher education institutions are a hotbed of diversity, bringing large numbers of mostly younger people from all over…
15th April 2021
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Degrees in danger
When John Lewis boss Dame Sharon White suggested “you’ve had a decade’s worth of changes in shopping habits in a…
14th April 2021
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What is the Council for the Defence of British Universities?
How would you characterise your members? Early in 2012, Professor Sir Keith Thomas, CDBU’s founder, recruited 66 founding members, all…
13th April 2021
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Sustainability in HE: Greta expectations
For Dickens’ Pip, “suffering was stronger than all other teaching”. But then, he wasn’t paying ten grand a year for…
13th April 2021
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Mentoring students: every little helps
My undergraduate research mentor right from the start was really careful about how I thought about science and making sure…
10th April 2021
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Dr Zainab Khan on institutional racism, non-continuation rates and decolonisation
Dr Zainab Khan is not only pro-vice-chancellor (teaching and learning) but also director of the Centre for Equality and Inclusion…
8th April 2021
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Chris Skidmore on the KEF, civic universities and levelling up
Two-time minister for universities and now a prominent HE advocate on the backbenches, Conservative MP Chris Skidmore could claim to…
7th April 2021
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Nick Hillman on free speech, trade-offs and policymakers
Nick Hillman’s career, it would appear, set him up perfectly to run the Higher Education Policy Institute, the think tank…
6th April 2021
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Professor Debra Humphris on perspective, privilege and the prime minister
Thoughtful, considered and courteous, Professor Deborah Humphris has been vice-chancellor at the University of Brighton since 2015 –…
1st April 2021
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