NEW on Wonkhe: Debbie McVitty and Fiona Lennoxsmith reflect on the structural challenge of higher education change and invite emerging leaders to join a new Wonkhe x Advance HE project on developing leadership change capability for the future buff.ly/u7H85c5

I'm afraid our universities are full of flawed human beings, tempted to use power whenever they can get away with it. Can make an unpleasant atmosphere for too many. Maybe these examples sound familiar? #edusky #womeninstem occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

I have a piece in the most recent Advance HE HE Horizons which was entirely focused upon Lifelong Learning advance-he.ac.uk/membership/m...

I have written up some thoughts about a recent Higher Education Policy Institute report for their blog www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/05/01/a...

My #HigherEducationPostcard for @wonkhe.bsky.social this week looks at Whitelands College, @uni-roehampton.bsky.social and its venerable May Day tradition wonkhe.com/blogs/higher...

NEW on Wonkhe: Setting out the next steps for Universities UK's transformation and efficiency agenda, Nigel Carrington calls on government to back the sector's ambitions buff.ly/K2YVqE2

I've written a blog for Third Space Perspectives on shared exploration in the Spinnaker Group of questions of curriculum design, assessment & institutional structures relating to the LLE: www.thirdspaceperspectives.com/blog/the-spinnaker-group-and-designing-for-lifelong-learning

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag cooks up a treat! buff.ly/0IIGB61

NEW on Wonkhe: Pre-arrival questionnaires highlight entrant preparedness wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

An excellent post by my colleague Professor Liz Austen on the scholarship of teaching and learning #SoTL “SoTL’s inherent value is the ability to build a community which improves student experiences and outcomes in an enquiry led and timely way.” srheblog.com/2026/04/14/i...

Not to be missed! #LTHEchat

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Join us for next week’s #LTHEchat which will explore “Talking About GenAI in Higher Education As If Education Came First” with @rmforsyth.bsky.social on Wednesday 1tth March 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/03/06/l...

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Founded in 1602, it is, after the British Library, the second largest library in the UK If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore Teaching, Learning, Assessment and GenAI with @hazelfarrell.bsky.social and @kenmccarthy.ie on Wednesday 8-9pm GMT.

This week we will feature @hopkinsdavid.bsky.social exploring Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next #LTHEchat

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This is coming from a place of love and support, but… It’s ‘shoo-in,’ not ‘shoe-in.’ It’s ‘case in point,’ not ‘case and point.’ It’s ‘moot point,’ not ‘mute point.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘jibe with,' not 'jive with.'

As a #HigherEducationPostcard spin off, here's a #HigherEducation cigarette card of @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social, from a set published by Wills Cigarettes in the 1920s Every pack included one, the idea was to collect a whole set: in this case, 25 cards featuring university arms

📢NEW @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social Educational Developments Magazine OUT NOW >> www.seda.ac.uk/seda-publish..., please share and repost to your networks 🙏 #HigherEducation #EdDev #EdTech #altc #AI #Education

NEW on Wonkhe: What do the outcomes from COP30 mean for higher education? And what role do universities play in addressing and understanding the climate crisis? Simon Meacher finds hope in the work the sector is doing buff.ly/tSLFRrr

NEW on Wonkhe: In a climate of increasing resistance, Arun Verma and Jason Arday argue that universities must strengthen their voice to defend inclusion, equity, and academic freedom buff.ly/GedY8Lm

If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Indian Institute, @ox.ac.uk I wrote about this for @wonkhe.bsky.social back in 2022: buff.ly/zaKoSP6 The tooth-marks come from Freya the dog

What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!

Last week on Wonkhe: A new report by Wonkhe with Advance HE explores perspectives on how to plan for educational excellence when the future is uncertain. Charles Knight digests the implications

NEW on Wonkhe: Janice Kay and Rachel Maxwell set out all the elements of a whole-institution AI strategy and the leadership capabilities required to make it real wonkhe.com/blogs/adopti...

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat with guests Mirjam Sophia Glessmer (@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social) and Robert Kordts (@robertkordts.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 12th November 2025 at 20:00 GMT to discuss How to teach for sustainability lthechat.com/2025/11/07/l...

NEW on Wonkhe: An independent commission has published a plan for digital skills badging and a national digital skills wallet. Patrina Law explains what higher education stands to gain from getting involved buff.ly/4Mq8JaB

Join us on Wednesday 8th October at 8pm BST for #LTHEchat here in Bluesky with Professor Zoë Allman @zoe-a-z.bsky.social to discuss 'Embedding Mental Wellbeing'. lthechat.com/2025/10/03/l... @lthechat.bsky.social

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore Dialogic Learning in the Age of Gen AI with @nurun.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm BST #dialogiclearning #genai #highereducation

Resharing for the new academic year my AI memes post. One or two may be useful prompts for discussion with your students: mcompton.uk/2025/03/24/m...

This week on Wonkhe: Is there room for a bill that only exists to fix problems with other bills? David Kernohan gets out the parliamentary tool box.

A @wonkhe.bsky.social blog on the OfS idea to link tuition fees to TEF results. It's unworkable as it was when it was first muted 10 years ago. It suggests that the OfS doesn't understand how the TEF works or the impact on the sector of making such ill-founded suggestions wonkhe.com/blogs/back-t...

The awesome @amymorrell.bsky.social (who I am privileged to supervise for a #PhD) is looking for new students joining #UKHE #HigherEducation #AcademicSky this year to take part in her online survey about student belonging. If you're teaching first year #undergraduates, please do share with them? 🙏

A busy day in HE. A level results day starts the public part of Confirmation & Clearing. I'm very grateful to my colleagues who worked over the past days & who'll be manning phones now to ensure the best possible experience for our applicants. Thank you all for your work in this key endeavour.

Intersting international dimension in the post from a couple of years ago (at my UK University and a number of others the approach (and national coding) differs for in-programme publications and fully post-hoc by publication blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Happy NTF & CATE day to those celebrating 🍾 including Michelle Morgan & Bryony Whitmarsh. To those who weren't successful this time, don't worry, regroup, try again with the feedback from assessors to make tweaks. #NTF #CATE #Teaching

Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

National Student Survey stuff: wonkhe.com/blogs/nation...

NEW on Wonkhe: The Department for Education has updated its plans for the Lifelong Learning Entitlement rollout. Michael Salmon and David Kernohan work out what’s new buff.ly/rrWwUvP

NEW on Wonkhe: The government has opted to turn away from postgraduate apprenticeships. Denise Baker thinks through the implications for the NHS and workforce planning in health and care buff.ly/xM6wSmw

NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag tells a story of university education outside of the state’s maw buff.ly/dbqFDWN

Join us Wednesday 30th April at 8pm BST for #LTHEchat 327 Quo vadis teaching, learning and assessment in Higher Education? Led by Emeriti Professor Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social and Emeritus Professor Phil Race @philrace.bsky.social

NEW on Wonkhe: Kulvinder Singh explores how vital the classroom is for commuter students' belonging in a context of increasing transactional approaches to education. bit.ly/3GfWwqO

NEW on Wonkhe: Michelle Morgan and Jonathan Neves introduce a sector-wide pilot of a tool to find out more about students and their expectations before they arrive at university buff.ly/lrMuiKV

NEW on Wonkhe: Personal tutoring requires specialist academic support which is only possible with access to the right data. Rachel Maxwell and Steve Briggs explore what this model could look like buff.ly/4h6XEdt

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore coaching as an educational practice with @kayguccione.bsky.social on Wednesday, 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post athttps://lthechat.com/2025/04/07/coaching-as-an-educational-practice-holding-space-for-a-learning-conversation/

Reflecting on two years of the ANTF Collaborative Innovation Project (CiP) Scheme by Professor Sam Elkington, Teeside University (ANTF Pedagogic Research Officer), and Haleh Moravej (ANTF Deputy Pedagogic Research Officer) ntf-association.com/reflecting-o...