Alice Heggie
@aheggie.bsky.social
Creative Education | Cultural Capital | Social Mobility | Access to the Arts
PhD student at the University of Dundee. Day job in College-Based HE leadership. Other interests: cats and hedgehogs.
PhD student at the University of Dundee. Day job in College-Based HE leadership. Other interests: cats and hedgehogs.
A very alarming start to the week in HE so here's the last of my garden hedgehogs who is still refusing to settle down for the winter. Sound in for ASMR munching.
December 2, 2024 at 10:58 PM
A very alarming start to the week in HE so here's the last of my garden hedgehogs who is still refusing to settle down for the winter. Sound in for ASMR munching.
Reposted by Alice Heggie
🚨OUT TODAY: 'Invest in higher education for care experienced and estranged students'
🧵Currently, flat funding support across universities means those better at taking on more care experienced and estranged students are forced to spread their resources more thinly.
www.smf.co.uk/publications...
🧵Currently, flat funding support across universities means those better at taking on more care experienced and estranged students are forced to spread their resources more thinly.
www.smf.co.uk/publications...
Care and Learning in Higher Education: How society and universities can support care experienced and estranged students to succeed - Social Market Foundation.
This report explores the gaps in support for care experienced and estranged students, and suggests ways to ensure that support is more consistently available.
www.smf.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 11:42 AM
🚨OUT TODAY: 'Invest in higher education for care experienced and estranged students'
🧵Currently, flat funding support across universities means those better at taking on more care experienced and estranged students are forced to spread their resources more thinly.
www.smf.co.uk/publications...
🧵Currently, flat funding support across universities means those better at taking on more care experienced and estranged students are forced to spread their resources more thinly.
www.smf.co.uk/publications...
Reposted by Alice Heggie
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
December 2, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Reposted by Alice Heggie
Clearly I haven’t quite fully engaged work mode on this here platform yet…
But as I see quite a few of your are talking about today’s OfS news, here is IHE’s statement on the matter:
ihe.ac.uk/latest/news/...
But as I see quite a few of your are talking about today’s OfS news, here is IHE’s statement on the matter:
ihe.ac.uk/latest/news/...
IHE responds to OfS decision to suspend registration and DAPs
Read our response to the OfS's decision to suspend applications for registration, Degree Awarding Powers and University Title until August 2025 in order to refocus its resources in response to the fin...
ihe.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Clearly I haven’t quite fully engaged work mode on this here platform yet…
But as I see quite a few of your are talking about today’s OfS news, here is IHE’s statement on the matter:
ihe.ac.uk/latest/news/...
But as I see quite a few of your are talking about today’s OfS news, here is IHE’s statement on the matter:
ihe.ac.uk/latest/news/...
Could the latter be because they took 8% more students than last year? The 8% that would have ordinarily gone to another institution. We need student number caps back, with hard widening access targets, urgently.
Drop in student dependant arrivals pushes down UK immigration
New figures suggest Russell Group universities have been much less affected by declining student numbers than other institutions
#AcademicSky #Highered
New figures suggest Russell Group universities have been much less affected by declining student numbers than other institutions
#AcademicSky #Highered
Drop in student dependant arrivals pushes down UK immigration
New figures suggest Russell Group universities have been much less affected by declining student numbers than other institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Could the latter be because they took 8% more students than last year? The 8% that would have ordinarily gone to another institution. We need student number caps back, with hard widening access targets, urgently.
Watching this unfold with no one stepping in to help is heartbreaking. I was made redundant from a university in 2020 (thanks for that). Professional services were the canaries in the coal mines years ago but no one paid any real attention until academic staff started being affected.
With Leeds Trinity and Loughborough we're now actually at 83, or exactly half of the 166 universities @timeshighered.bsky.social counts.
HALF OF OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE SHEDDING STAFF. In a normal timeline, politicians would care about this and try to do *something*, *anything*, right?
HALF OF OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE SHEDDING STAFF. In a normal timeline, politicians would care about this and try to do *something*, *anything*, right?
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 27, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Watching this unfold with no one stepping in to help is heartbreaking. I was made redundant from a university in 2020 (thanks for that). Professional services were the canaries in the coal mines years ago but no one paid any real attention until academic staff started being affected.
I'm here. I hated twitter before everyone else. Hoping to find my creative industries research kindred spirits, and maybe some college based HE sympathisers
November 27, 2024 at 5:13 PM
I'm here. I hated twitter before everyone else. Hoping to find my creative industries research kindred spirits, and maybe some college based HE sympathisers
@hbsj.bsky.social you're my first follow back! Thank you 👋
November 27, 2024 at 5:09 PM
@hbsj.bsky.social you're my first follow back! Thank you 👋