Category: Universities
Many wondering if the UK really wants internationa...
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Jun 4, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
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
How many body blows can the British Council take?
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Dec 22, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Fly over Europe with UK international HE strategy
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, Universities | 0
Does increasing university tuition fees make political sense?
by Nic Mitchell | Aug 28, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Universities are pressing the new Labour government to increase tuition fees, but what would you do as Higher Education minister? Nic Mitchell has a few ideas.
Read MoreWhy UK universities need to win over hearts and minds
by Nic Mitchell | Apr 22, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Nic Mitchell explores some of the challenges facing UK universities and why they must work harder to win over hearts and minds.
Read MoreTories make migration and foreign students election issue
by Nic Mitchell | Jan 19, 2024 | Blog, BREXIT, Featured, Universities | 0
Migration and the addiction of British universities to recruiting foreign students are hot topics for the Tories as the UK enters a General Election year.
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 MoreWhy 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 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 MoreDisappearing European students at UK universities
by Nic Mitchell | Sep 8, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
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?
Read MoreThe UK still needs to sort out student mobility
by Nic Mitchell | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
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.