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The Turing scheme: a licence to do things better?
It is all change. Almost a year ago today, prime minister Boris Johnson stood in parliament to reassure MPs there…
20th January 2021
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8 biggest challenges for universities in 2021
The digital revolution Call it a pivot, call it a crash course, call it an overnight transformation – when universities…
6th January 2021
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‘Our purpose extends beyond Yorkshire’
The University of York has been planning for Brexit since before the referendum result. Now, as Brexit realities begin to…
21st December 2020
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Eyes down for the University Business Christmas Quiz
Here is your starter for ten and, please, no conferring: 1 The word university is derived from the Latin ‘universitas…
21st December 2020
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A day in the life: Professor of facility and environment management
How long have you been in your job? I joined UCL from a professional architectural practice 14 years ago. …
20th December 2020
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Why every campus needs green spaces
Interest in our mental health and wellbeing has grown exponentially in the past two decades and, like any other sector,…
18th December 2020
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Special report: Unconscious bias training – Is it time your university signed up?
The facts: The Higher Education Staff Statistics: UK, 2018/19 states that: ● Among academic staff there were more males than…
14th December 2020
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Interview: Graeme Atherton, widening participation champion, head of AccessHE and director of NEON
“Everybody, in a hundred years’ time, will be in education till they’re 21, 22” As a working-class boy from Blackpool…
12th December 2020
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Technology – Uploading the past
From the beginning of the pandemic, the higher education sector has rushed – or pivoted (depending on your perspective and…
10th December 2020
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Places & spaces: December 2020
The University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham’s new £22.7m Teaching and Learning Building at its Edgbaston campus is a…
24th November 2020
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