Thanks Nick Hillman - have ordered!
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This is a lovely read - I do hope people said all these nice things to Tony while he was alive....

I shared the news with colleagues and students this morning that I plan to retire as Principal of University of Glasgow.
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gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/prof…

By the time I step back in late 2025, I will have served 16 years as Principal & well over 20 years in HE senior management. (1/7)

What should party manifestos say about #HigherEducation funding?
It's an issue they can't avoid altogether and merely announcing a long-grass review would be a failure of leadership. #FairerFunding #EmployerLevy
johnnyrich.com/what-should-pa…

This great space is to mobilise and energise affirming educational responses for boys and young men - TBS team will be there Dr Alex Blower Mary Curnock Cook Andy Hamilton Centre for Youth Research & Dialogue

newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Just re-sharing this in case you missed in on the Easter break!

The jaw-dropping mess of UK higher education is starkly revealed by a series of news stories all on the Times Higher Education website in the last week or so:

1.) There are job cuts right across the sector (44 universities and counting): timeshighereducation.com/news/portsmout…

People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵

'As the panic about artificial intelligence’s (AI) capability to bring down democratic governments, usurp all information-related jobs and ultimately cause human extinction calms down'.... Lucy Haire Higher Education Policy Institute rounds up views from a recent roundtable
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Good to see this often taboo topic being written about again. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

UK students going to lower and medium tariff universities will be getting meaningfully less funding per student (about 25%) than their peers – paying the same fee – going to selective universities. Essential analysis from Mark Corver 👇🏼
linkedin.com/posts/markcorv…

Rare video of a mother wrench feeding her young ones

Things random strangers tell you when you go out and about with a disabled child:

1) In Sainsbury’s: they should be quiet
2) in McDonalds: they should probably eat outside if they are going to be too messy (contd)
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“What we’re seeing isn’t some slow, careful rebalancing of the system, done [in] teenagers’ best interests... Instead, it’s just another messy, confused decline of something Britain was genuinely once good at, which contributed billions to the economy while projecting soft power”

A sobering but important read as the Easter break kicks in theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Rather than imposing a set of outcomes to measure impact of ‘successful attainment raising’, conversations turn instead to interventions which support school attendance, improve attitude to learning and reduce instances of internal exclusion.” Dr Alex Blower Higher Education Policy Institute…

Many thanks to Karen for contributing her thoughts on leadership for technology and technology for leadership in HE

Excellent collection on education and technology Mary Curnock Cook and Higher Education Policy Institute Great also to see Durham University vice-chancellor Karen O’Brien and her significant contribution, especially on governance, management and IT’s critical role

Chris Parr Mary Curnock Cook ResearchProfessionalNews It is not just universities at risk but the students they teach and the good they do.

I’d love to see every story in the national media about an institution in economic trouble begin with what their work means for those who benefit and who would pay a price for what is lost.