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WAHED 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

Disappearing 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?

Can Keir Starmer land a knockout blow on Boris Johnson?

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.

The 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.

Not 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

Will 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.

Lessons 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

So 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...

Getting the diet right for bowel cancer survivors

by Nic Mitchell | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Cancer-talk | 0

Nic Mitchell marks Bowel Cancer Awareness Month by looking at getting the diet right after treatment in a bid to lead something like a normal life again.