Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation studies, University of Edinburgh: research interests in the health bioeconomy and innovation; posts reflect personal views not those of my employer. https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/james-mittra
Of course they see AI as part of the solution.
Times Higher Education (THE)UK Research and Innovation has pledged to halve the time it takes to review grant applications by targeting a 90-day turnaround for applicant-led bids
This is really quite shocking when all laid out.
Rachel CunliffeSo it turns out the "contract" teenagers signed for their student loans wasn't actually a contract at all, the government always had the right to retrospectively change the terms, and at no point was this explained to those taking out the loans... www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...
interesting paper on academic craftsmanship and its underpinning values that have been undermined by ‘managerialism’.
Academic Craftsmanship: Reclaiming Values, Practices, and Sovereignty in the University - MinervaThis essay proposes academic craftsmanship as an ideal-type for interpreting and defending universities’ research, teaching, and public work under managerial regimes. It argues that neoliberal manager...link.springer.comAbsolutely this. If only we had HE leaders that actually lobbied hard for the sector and its staff that actually deliver this economic success, instead of cutting themselves to the bone and baking in terminal decline.
Chris ParrTime and again I think that THIS is the stat universities should shout, shout & shout again about. New education export data again show HE responsible for nearly three-quarters of a £37bn UK revenue source. Fund our universities! Source: explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...
Really good piece on the current crisis.'The university system is more like a cartel than a market. Among managers, there is far more imitation than innovation'. Dimaggio and Powell's description of mimetic insitituional isomorphism in their 1983 paper 'the iron cage revisited' seems relevant here.
The Crisis in Britain’s UniversitiesThe cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrate the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?johnheathershaw.substack.comtrying and failing to think of anything in the UK that isn’t currently in a doom loop.
East Anglia BylinesThe migration debate is stuck in a doom loop: politicians blame immigration for economic and social problems, tighten the rules, growth slows, services struggle, and public frustration grows. Stephen McNair reports how research by Jonathan Portes and Lauren Gilbert shows the cycle feeding itself.