Category: Blog
Why blame students for affordable housing crisis?
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Jan 1, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
How should universities react to Putin’s Ukraine W...
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Mar 16, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Brexit, cancer and the unexpected as a freelance
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Jan 20, 2022 | Blog, BREXIT, Cancer-talk | 0
How many body blows can the British Council take?
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Dec 22, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Can Keir Starmer land a knockout blow on the Torie...
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Jul 24, 2021 | Blog, BREXIT, Featured | 0
How to lose weight and fight heart failure
by Nic Mitchell | Nov 22, 2023 | Blog, Cancer-talk, Featured | 0
Nic Mitchell describes how he lost a stone (6 kilograms) in weight by accident while fighting heart failure and kept his weight down.
Read MoreWhat’s it like being told you have heart failure?
by Nic Mitchell | Jul 28, 2023 | Blog, Cancer-talk, Featured, HE-Comms | 0
There is a lot to absorb when you are told you have something as serious as cancer or heart failure, as Nic Mitchell found out twice.
Read MoreMany wondering if the UK really wants international students
by Nic Mitchell | Jun 4, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Nic Mitchell explores whether the UK really wants international students after the latest U-turn to ban dependants of those coming for taught master’s degrees.
Read MoreHow tough can it be to stop drinking alcohol?
by Nic Mitchell | May 9, 2023 | Blog, Cancer-talk, Featured, HE-Comms | 0
Nic Mitchell explores just how tough it can be
to give up drinking alcohol after a lifetime working in journalism and higher education public relations?
Why blame students for affordable housing crisis?
by Nic Mitchell | Jan 1, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
You don’t need a crystal ball to see that migration and a crisis in affordable housing will dominate the agenda for policymakers and higher education experts in 2023.
Read MoreWhy Crimea matters to Putin and what Lenin would say about the war
by Nic Mitchell | Sep 29, 2022 | Blog, Universities | 0
Writing about the fast changing war launched by Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation against Ukraine is fraught with challenges, such as why Crimea is so important to all sides and what Lenin might have to say about the invasion.
Read MoreStudents changed during pandemic, so should we
by Nic Mitchell | Jun 14, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Students are not rushing back to lecture theatres and may have changed more than higher education staff during the pandemic. So are we ready for the new normal?
Read MoreHow should universities react to Putin’s Ukraine War?
by Nic Mitchell | Mar 16, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Was UK higher education too slow to oppose Putin’s war in Ukraine? Nic Mitchell looks at the timeline and how European universities reacted.
Read MoreBrexit, cancer and the unexpected as a freelance
by Nic Mitchell | Jan 20, 2022 | Blog, BREXIT, Cancer-talk | 0
Nic Mitchell looks at a decade running his own freelance business, De la Cour Communications, and what he didn’t expect while promoting student mobility and international higher education.
Read MoreHow many body blows can the British Council take?
by Nic Mitchell | Dec 22, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Nic Mitchell investigates how serious a blow losing the Brexit-inspired Turing student and trainee mobility scheme is for the British Council?
Read MoreWAHED is world access to higher education day
by Nic Mitchell | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Nic Mitchell looks forward to World Access to Higher Education Day(WAHED) and recalls the early days of championing wider participation at Teesside University
Read MorePut a face mask on and save Christmas from COVID
by Nic Mitchell | Oct 25, 2021 | Blog, Cancer-talk, Featured | 0
Apologies to those who would just wish COVID away, but here’s why a few simple precautions like wearing a face mask could save us from a pre-Christmas lockdown.
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