Tag: Nic Mitchell
What’s it like being told you have heart failure?
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.
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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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Brexit, cancer and the unexpected as a freelance
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.
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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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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 reopen safely after Covid-19?
The media seized on UCU leader Jo Grady’s claim that universities risked becoming the “care homes of the second wave” of the virus.
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Not so easy for many to slip into online learning
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
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Will students want to study abroad after COVID19?
With falling demand from international students for studying abroad, Nic Mitchell looks at how to make sense of what prospective students are thinking.
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Lessons in self-isolation during coronavirus
Nic Mitchell offers some advice on coping with self-isolation from his year fighting cancer
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So what is a colonoscopy all about?
If you’ve managed to survive all the radiotherapy, chemo, surgery and the CT or MRI scanning that...
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