Category: Featured
How tough can it be to stop drinking alcohol?
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?
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.
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Why Crimea matters to Putin and what Lenin would say about the war
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.
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Students changed during pandemic, so should we
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?
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How should universities react to Putin’s Ukraine War?
Was UK higher education too slow to oppose Putin’s war in Ukraine? Nic Mitchell looks at the timeline and how European universities reacted.
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How many body blows can the British Council take?
Nic Mitchell investigates how serious a blow losing the Brexit-inspired Turing student and trainee mobility scheme is for the British Council?
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WAHED is world access to higher education day
Nic Mitchell looks forward to World Access to Higher Education Day(WAHED) and recalls the early days of championing wider participation at Teesside University
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Put a face mask on and save Christmas from COVID
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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Disappearing European students at UK universities
Will studying in the UK be a luxury only the richest overseas students can afford and is this behind the dramatic fall in European students in this year’s UCAS student recruitment cycle?
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Can Keir Starmer land a knockout blow on the Tories?
Nic Mitchell considers what Keir Starmer must do to make Labour a more attractive alternative to Boris Johnson’s Conservative chaotic government.
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The UK still needs to sort out student mobility
Nic Mitchell says the challenges to getting more UK students to study or work abroad are similar to
when he started blogging about student mobility 9 years ago.
Can universities help put the global back into GB?
Can higher education help the UK to move on from the narrow nationalism of the Brexit campaign make Global Britain a reality again?
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