RT @markmleach: The programme for The Festival of Higher Education dropped today. Two non-stop days, four jammed stages. so much to see a….

RT @Wonkhe: NEW on Wonkhe: This week on our final show before the summer break, Labour is to introduce a Skills England bill - we discuss w….

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RT @Wonkhe: NEW on Wonkhe: Labour's manifesto puts teaching quality in the context of a post-16 education review. Debbie McVitty looks over….

RT @Wonkhe: NEW on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we have new research out on cost of living and its impact on students. With no time, wi….

RT @Wonkhe: NEW on Wonkhe: By the end of the eighties the architecture of HE as we know it was in place – but not the funding. Debbie McVit….

Well! What a brilliant day at @uniofleicester - saw lots of cool stuff, beautifully curated for us, obvs, but also just really great clarity of purpose and sense of collective endeavour around doing stuff that has meaning both inside and outside the university.

RT @Wonkhe: NEW on Wonkhe: A new book promises to lift the lid on the unvarnished realities of academic life. Debbie McVitty wonders if it….

RT @jonathansimons: An extended case study on why this is a self defeating argument - using Teesside University, which Simon is rightly ver….

RT @Wonkhe: NEW on Wonkhe: UCAS has a new tool showing successful students' actual grades on entry to their courses. Debbie McVitty got a s….

RT @Wonkhe: NEW on Wonkhe: Debbie McVitty finds the seeds of an emerging consensus around the value of higher education expansion in party….

Anyone else start this week with a tightly planned list of objectives only to have things slowly descend into chaos as the week wears on? Or are you all on holidays, you lucky ducks!.

I have exactly one hour free in central Edinburgh on Friday morning 11-12 if anyone wants me to buy them a coffee! Otherwise I guess I’ll just buy something tartan for the kids….

@officestudents …all of which can be designed with mental health in mind of course. But better to lobby on primary care provision than pare services to the bone to maintain the illusion of a support structure I think.

@officestudents I think there needs to be real & deep understanding inside unis of how mental health conditions & issues manifest & true empathy and flexibility when they do. Lots to be done around connection, health, and (my personal “thing”) agentive curriculum….

New insight also out today from @officestudents evaluating the mental health funding competition over last 3 years - my reading is it adds fuel to argument that doing this work well, at scale, impactfully is a reach esp when students have limited time/resource to engage.

I was anxious writing this because I worried it might get read like “Wonkhe hates mental health” (not the case!) I’m just mindful it’s hard for people working in this space to open up this conversation about what’s reasonable, appropriate, effective to deliver.

RT @Wonkhe: NEW on Wonkhe: Drawing on insight from a new Wonkhe/Solutionpath project, Rachel Maxwell and Debbie McVitty explore how univers….

I CAN make small talk if I have to but you won’t enjoy it because I’m pretty dreadful at it.

An incredible day at @KeeleUniversity chatting curriculum, student life, global challenges, collective action & everything in between. Really impressive staff, students & projects on the go.

RT @Wonkhe: NEW on Wonkhe: Expanding higher education isn't explicitly on any political party's agenda, but you can't have regional economi….