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Escaping the tyranny of contact hours
Click on the link below to read my feature critical of “contact hours” and the government’s latest sport of infantilising the student experience. It appeared in the Times Higher on Thursday 11 August… more →
Paul Ramsden
Learning to Lead in Higher Education
wrote 12 months ago: The future success of our universities depends on academics’ capacity to respond energetically … more →
Escaping the tyranny of contact hours
wrote 1 year ago: Click on the link below to read my feature critical of “contact hours” and the government’s latest s … more →
What the audience thinks
wrote 1 year ago: If you’re wondering about whether to hire me as a speaker, you might like to read some comment … more →
White Paper recommendations dissected
wrote 1 year ago: The White Paper has been so thoroughly trashed in the dead tree press as well as on the interwebby t … more →
White Paper & student experience: dogma dressed as policy
wrote 1 year ago: The White Paper ‘offers fudged technocratic fixes to try to correct a series of failed political fud … more →
Off-White Paper
wrote 1 year ago: It was a hard act to beat, but the recent White Paper succeeds. It’s even duller than the last … more →
HEFCE evaluation report published
wrote 2 years ago: HEFCE has published a report by Curtis+Cartwright Consulting to which I contributed as a team member … more →
Mountains of debt and ignorance
wrote 2 years ago: Commentators on teaching and learning in higher education don’t tend to address issues of fund … more →
Six principles of effective teaching in higher education
wrote 2 years ago: OK, so I don’t have any time for the mediocre scholars with lifeless research performance who pontif … more →
Regulate, bully, dictate: more bad news for the student experience
wrote 2 years ago: I don’t know which upsets me more: the Westminster government’s persistent posturing on student acce … more →
Do lecturers need licences to practise?
wrote 2 years ago: There are quite a few odd things in the Browne review, though nothing quite as odd as the dog’s brea … more →
Funding and teaching quality - the answer?
wrote 2 years ago: Alasdair Smith has an interesting piece here arguing that the Browne review heralds a revolution in … more →
Browne: Two and an half cheers
wrote 2 years ago: First reactions to the Browne review VERY GOOD Freeing up universities to charge the tuition fees th … more →
If I were an ex-BP chief executive...
wrote 2 years ago: No, not Tony Hayward – the other one. If I were Lord Browne, aka head of the review of student finan … more →
How to improve university teaching
wrote 2 years ago: This is the full version of the feature that appeared in Times Higher Education, 5 August 2010. It s … more →
Enhancing the NSS: report published
wrote 2 years ago: “An asset to be treated with care” The report on Enhancing and Developing the National Student Surve … more →
Should tuition fees go up?
wrote 2 years ago: Aaron Porter (new NUS President) gave an intriguing talk at yesterday’s conference on higher educati … more →
Excellence in Teaching and Learning – Neil Stewart Associates Conference Presentation
wrote 2 years ago: I advanced these propositions in yesterday’s address: 1. The student experience in the UK is a victi … more →
Review of the UK's National Student Survey
wrote 3 years ago: I am leading a project on Enhancing and Developing the National Student Survey for the Higher Educat … more →
