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Student engagement series: The student view on governance

Student engagement series: The student view on governance

Event review by Daniel Whitby – Student Union President of Marjon SU at the University of St Mark & St John  I recently attended a Leadership Foundation/NUS Conference on the role of student governors and about student engagement in university governance. I was...

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Student engagement in smaller institutions

Student engagement in smaller institutions

Alex Bols blog for The Student Engagement Partnership: I was asked at a conference recently whether student engagement is harder in smaller institutions. Students’ unions in smaller institutions often have a fraction of the budget and income that larger unions do –...

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Student engagement in smaller institutions

Student engagement in smaller institutions

Alex Bols blog for The Student Engagement Partnership: I was asked at a conference recently whether student engagement is harder in smaller institutions. Students’ unions in smaller institutions often have a fraction of the budget and income that larger unions do –...

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Goodbye Mr Gove

Goodbye Mr Gove

First published in HE from Research Fortnight Higher education is working out what it thinks about the departure of the two longest-serving Conservative education ministers of recent times. One was feared and the other was liked. Both were totemic. Gove visibly shook...

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Goodbye Mr Gove

The legacy of David Willetts

Originally posted on wonkhe on July 17th, 2014: It is with mixed feelings that the sector says goodbye to David Willetts. He has been in the higher education and science brief continuously since 2005 – two years as Shadow Secretary of State for education and skills in...

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Going International – more than milking the cash cow?

Going International – more than milking the cash cow?

Told time and again the value of International students is billions of pounds to the UK economy, that we are the number two destination in the world for foreign students, and that new lucrative markets are emerging, universities are frequently asking first "How shall...

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Going International – more than milking the cash cow?

Going International – more than milking the cash cow?

Told time and again the value of International students is billions of pounds to the UK economy, that we are the number two destination in the world for foreign students, and that new lucrative markets are emerging, universities are frequently asking first "How shall...

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Internationalising higher education

Internationalising higher education

Alex Bols, GuildHE Deputy CEO and Vicky Lewis, Director, Vicky Lewis Consulting What are the key features of an outstanding modern university? The answer to this has evolved down the years with the traditional double-helix of research and teaching more recently...

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