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‘What Were They Expecting Anyway?’ The Workload Expectations of Undergraduates. | A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. 8216;What Were They Expecting Anyway? 8217; The Workload Expectations of Undergraduates. 8216;What Were They Expecting Anyway? 8217; The Workload Expectations of Undergraduates. February 9, 2015. February 7, 2015. What don’t we tell students before they become students? The table below caught my eye when I saw it in a blog by Louisa Darian of. Work they are required to do. Her answer: ‘could be a bit of each’. Actually, we don’t really know! Might freshers want nothing more b...
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How was the REF for you? | A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. How was the REF for you? How was the REF for you? December 18, 2014. December 19, 2014. I had very little to do with REF preparation this time around, being more absorbed with the (very high, by the way) quality of education across our humanities units. But I’m in it today! S ‘research power’ measure, which is the best predictor of QR dividends, we rise to fourth; on the. So what lessons might we learn from this REF? Here are some of my initial thoughts. And don’t we know it?
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Labour, fees and student debt: a failure of branding? | A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. Labour, fees and student debt: a failure of branding? Labour, fees and student debt: a failure of branding? March 2, 2015. March 2, 2015. We’re a long way from Labour actually implementing its brave new policy university fees capped at 6000 per year but there are certainly an awful lot of left-leaning people asking one thing. Why? Note that it wasn’t a ‘loan’, in the original Australian version of the scheme, it was a ‘contribution’. Was that sleight of hand? More on the REF.
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‘Hey boss, is anyone listening to me?’ | A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. 8216;Hey boss, is anyone listening to me? 8216;Hey boss, is anyone listening to me? December 9, 2014. December 9, 2014. When I labelled a session at our September departmental away day ‘Questions of Voice’, it became apparent that some people were expecting a discussion of poetry. Short memories: the 2012 Exeter staff survey put ‘voice’ high on the agenda. We now know that the results for the 2014 survey were slightly better, but still a cause for concern. In our History depa...
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. 8216;Fee rises’: a comment on the power of words. June 8, 2016. David Morris’s recent blog-post for Wonkhe, ‘TEF and Tuition Fees: myths and reality’. Dares to state the blindingly obvious: that the White Paper’s ‘rises’ in higher education tuition fees are barely rises at all. Indeed, if we take the White Paper at its word, it is actually proposing a mechanism to. None of this is to argue that fees do not. Like fees to those paying them. Nor is it to argue that the curre...
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Still loving the National Student Survey | A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. Still loving the National Student Survey. Still loving the National Student Survey. August 15, 2015. August 15, 2015. I didn’t plan to write a post on the NSS this year, but sometimes I see something so bonkers that I can’t hold my tongue. That came along last week in the form of a. Blog-post: The National Student Survey should be abolished before it does any more harm. And so, while my mate Derfel has already led the defence. Here we go again. Blog-post was published the day...
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‘Are they writing enough?’ | A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. 8216;Are they writing enough? 8216;Are they writing enough? April 23, 2015. While Acton’s tone is the familiar self-congratulatory one of a former VC, the content of his piece is nonetheless interesting. UEA charted a distinctive path through the post-Browne years, so its results are worth considering. But not everyone at UEA agrees with Acton. Its sabbatical Education Officer, Connor Rand, responded with a blog-post. The common sense answer is that practice must be a good th...
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The TEF: measuring excellence or adequacy? | A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. The TEF: measuring excellence or adequacy? The TEF: measuring excellence or adequacy? August 3, 2015. August 3, 2015. But might there be a problem all the same? What I want to do here is tease out some of the potential implications for the TEF of the financial consequences to which it appears that it will be yoked. These will be very different in nature to those we have come to accept from the. Will it measure excellence or determine adequacy? How excellent is excellent?
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Mind the Sustainability Gap: a short guide to university finances | A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. Mind the Sustainability Gap: a short guide to university finances. Mind the Sustainability Gap: a short guide to university finances. May 12, 2015. May 9, 2015. Be warned: this blog-post consists simply of passages from HEFCE’s. Financial health of the higher education sector: financial results and TRAC outcomes 2013-14. On our addiction to international students. While the sector reported an overall increase in staff costs in 2013-14, the rise in staff numbers (up 3.7 pe...
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A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG. Articles posted by amcrae2014. The geo-politics of plagiarism. October 18, 2016. October 18, 2016. Somewhere in Kenya there are bright and motivated university graduates making a living writing essays for students at universities in the English-speaking West. We know this thanks to a report last month in the Chronicle of High Education. And we know more about the mucky business of essay mills thanks to a report. Rather a sophisticated historic treadmill, if you believe google.