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Rodolfo Benites
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Research Associate @chet-bristol.bsky.social, Doctoral Researcher at the School of Education, University of Bristol | HigherEd & Public Policy | 🔬Meritocracy, Elites & Inequalities | Prev. @kclalumni.bsky.social
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🌟 Welcome to CHET!

We are thrilled to welcome Daniel Neyland as a new Associate.
Daniel is co-director of the @bdfi.bsky.social Bristol Digital Futures Institute.

🔗Explore his profile: chet.bristol.ac.uk/our-people/a...
February 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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🎟️🎟️🎟GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY!

Registration is now OPEN for the upcoming three online #HigherEdSeminarSeries.

🔗Explore the entire programme and register today: chet.bristol.ac.uk/seminarseries/

#HigherEd #Marketisation #EducationPolicy #Employment #PublicCitizenship #Prestige #Rankings #Polycrisis
January 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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🚨New seminar alert!

💬#AcademicFreedom and the shifting #geopolitics of #HigherEd and #research by Katja Brøgger (Aarhus University).

📅Wednesday, 29 Jan 2025
⏰13:00 – 14:00 (GMT)
📍This is an ONLINE-only event

🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/eBI6Q
January 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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👋Hello, everyone!

We’re back! We hope you’re as excited about the start of a new year as we are.

We look forward to seeing you online or in person very soon. Please follow us here and on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/cent...

Stay tuned for more news! ✨ ✨ ✨
January 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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🌟Welcome to CHET!

We are thrilled to welcome Hans de Wit and Tanner Mirrlees as new CHET Associates.

They join our fantastic community of committed academics and experts who conduct research and drive global transformations in #HigherEd.

🔗Explore their profiles here: shorturl.at/bCujS
December 19, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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🚨New blog post alert!

In his latest blog post, @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social, Co-director of @chet-bristol.bsky.social, discusses which individuals are best suited to lead #universities in the challenging landscape of the UK #HigherEd sector.

🔗Access here ➡️ shorturl.at/dLOLU

#Leadership #Academia
Let's look outside academia for university leaders | LSE Higher Education
With universities in crisis, the traditional choice of an academic as leader might not be the wisest, suggests LSE HE Blog Fellow Richard Watermeyer
shorturl.at
December 12, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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🧵Two calls for abstracts for special issues of the British Journal of Sociology of Education @bjse.bsky.social:

1. Thinking Multiple and Complex Educational Inequalities with Bourdieu and Intersectionality (deadline 31 Jan)
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Thinking Multiple and Complex Educational Inequalities with Bourdieu and Intersectionality
think.taylorandfrancis.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Tweeting about politics undermines scientists’ credibility in the eyes of the public — gotta leave the takes to trained professionals.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
December 6, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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So the 'evidence' in this article is one student who claims 80-90% of her MA colleagues are buying essays and one lecturer who claims 70% of his students do not have sufficient language levels. What terrible journalism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds
Institutions may be overlooking inadequate language skills to receive high fees from overseas students.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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We are developing a panel on academic freedom for the 2025 ECPR general conference. Are you working on themes related to academic freedom, do you know of others who are?

Several interesting panels available in the section - share the call! #highered #academicfreedom

ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Knowledge Politics and Policies
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 29, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Prestigious award for doctoral researchers working on education in LMICs - Deadline January 2025

www.edt.org/research-and...
Tim Morris Award
Education Development Trust's Tim Morris Award offers £2,000 financial support to a PhD student in the field of general education to support field research in a low- or low-middle income country.
www.edt.org
November 29, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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⏰Get your tickets today!

Join @davidstaley8.bsky.social @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Darren Moon and @jkom.bsky.social on Dec 11th at 1:00 p.m. (GMT) for our next online seminar “The reshaping of #HigherEd by #DigitalTech”.

🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/ifwnA

#HigherEducation #Digitalisation #AI
November 28, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Hello everyone! Join @chet-bristol.bsky.social and follow our #HigherEd community of researchers via CHET's Starter Pack go.bsky.app/8MuPLnT
November 27, 2024 at 8:46 AM