Tag: Nic Mitchell
Can Keir Starmer land a knockout blow on the Torie...
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Jul 24, 2021 | Blog, BREXIT, Featured | 0
Can universities reopen safely after Covid-19?
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Not so easy for many to slip into online learning
Posted by Nic Mitchell | May 15, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Will students want to study abroad after COVID19?
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Apr 15, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
Lessons in self-isolation during coronavirus
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog, Cancer-talk, Featured | 0
What’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 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 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 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 MoreCan Keir Starmer land a knockout blow on the Tories?
by Nic Mitchell | Jul 24, 2021 | Blog, BREXIT, Featured | 0
Nic Mitchell considers what Keir Starmer must do to make Labour a more attractive alternative to Boris Johnson’s Conservative chaotic government.
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.
Can universities reopen safely after Covid-19?
by Nic Mitchell | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
The media seized on UCU leader Jo Grady’s claim that universities risked becoming the “care homes of the second wave” of the virus.
Read MoreNot so easy for many to slip into online learning
by Nic Mitchell | May 15, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
As students struggle with courses going online due to COVID-19, many feel it’s time for a radical rethink about the future direction of global education
Read MoreWill students want to study abroad after COVID19?
by Nic Mitchell | Apr 15, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
With falling demand from international students for studying abroad, Nic Mitchell looks at how to make sense of what prospective students are thinking.
Read MoreLessons in self-isolation during coronavirus
by Nic Mitchell | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog, Cancer-talk, Featured | 0
Nic Mitchell offers some advice on coping with self-isolation from his year fighting cancer
Read MoreSo what is a colonoscopy all about?
by Nic Mitchell | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog, Cancer-talk | 0
If you’ve managed to survive all the radiotherapy, chemo, surgery and the CT or MRI scanning that...
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