Pro-Vice Chancellors have special trousers?!? At which university is this?

So this is this week- my inaugural lecture entitled ‘What use is a Professor?’ It’s finally written! Everyone welcome on Wednesday; we start with wine and canapés at 4.30pm….

Today we were delighted to see our new partners, Adobe, at our Freshers Fair. All students at ManchesterMet now have FREE access to Adobe Express- a brilliant tool for your studies, for developing digital skills & for your socials! We are proud to be one of the few Adobe Creative Campuses!

#EduSky community is now over 3.5k strong!

Great WonkHE article today @wonkhe.bsky.social. According to their summary, 42 per cent of students responding to Jisc’s student digital experience insights survey 2023–24 reported problems from having no private area to work – and 34 per cent were impacted by having no suitable device. 1/2

The first step. A long way still to go but this is a good start to address teacher and senior leader well-being as well as the culture of performativity. schoolsweek.co.uk/headline-ofs...

NEW on Wonkhe: The search for a new head of UKRI is back underway – but there are some subtle differences post-election. Michael Salmon goes line-by-line https://buff.ly/4dYGmxC

NEW on Wonkhe: In building more active and engaged pedagogies, many disciplines are taking an experiential turn. Jonny Hall makes the case for collaboration across subject areas https://buff.ly/3XhDI0x

This great Schools Week article by Rachel Johnson has some ideas about belonging from outside education. We could use them in HE as well as schools & colleges. schoolsweek.co.uk/four-ideas-f...

NEW on Wonkhe: Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson have read the manifestos of this year's student leaders - and find students yearning for connection and lower costs https://buff.ly/44rTgAa

Donald Trump has claimed that the was The Queen's favourite President. He absolutely was not. #CatCheck

This Wendy Cope poem is new to me. It’s quietly magnificent.

This is a fabulous opportunity to work in our Faculty of Health and Education with me and some other amazingly talented colleagues- please do get in touch for a chat if you might be interested. Check out this job at The Manchester Metropolitan University: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

schoolsweek.co.uk/gcse-results... Those regional disparities are still clear and distressing.

Really interesting read….