Twitter, you were very helpful in the books, TY. Next Q., should I frame & hang my academic certificates? Cons: looks boastful, needy & insecure. Pros: it symbolises I have benefited enormously from education, I have visceral excitement for learning, I have a humanities education

What makes video lectures inclusive, engaging and enables students to thrive?

NTF Tweet LALT Lincoln School of Life Sciences Dr Lee Fallin Gemma Spencer Tom Tomlinson Prof Jo Rushworth NTF（非凡）

Here’s the top 10 features according to students 👇

A walk through the park to take the train to attend today’s meeting of the Middlesex University Board of Governors, ahead of taking up post in a couple of weeks. New green leaves and new beginnings.

Really good to see these relevant & interesting project titles demonstrating the resilience of the sector. Well done QAA for supporting this work. Looking forwards to seeing the outcomes. qaa.ac.uk/membership/col…

Early data suggests 6% fall in overseas master's enrolments at English universities this year, but some much bigger drops on some campuses, eg, Staffs -75%, UCA -54%, Leicester -45% timeshighereducation.com/news/english-u… via Paddy Jack

Please share my CFP for Politicised Nostalgias workshop at UniofNorthampton! northampton.ac.uk/research-blogs… Looking for papers from a range of periods & disciplines with a view to brainstorming & eventual publication of a journal special issue!

I have dedicated my life to students & I regularly find amazing inspirational young people. Last Thursday was a day like this with Aston SU President Atul Rana. He prepared a delicious meal for me and the most amazing chai. We chatted late into the night known as Adda.

Today marks #WorldHealthDay

Universities are hugely important to training healthcare workers, as well as producing medical research that improves all of our lives.

See how universities power our health services in the UK💙

#UnisPowerOurNHS

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Weekend started with⁩ ⁦Bushy parkrun⁩ followed by tea and a chat with a friend and my eldest, sitting in the park. The best start to a Saturday.

I love detective fiction. I love the problem solving, the moral questions & the genre experiments. I’m rereading (listening) to Gaudy Night. One of the themes in it is how one’s own heart can be as great a mystery as any other one is trying to solve. audible.co.uk/pd/B00WKKACS8?…

This week on Wonkhe: The government has delivered another big real terms cut to universities in England. Jim Dickinson can smell the stasis Jim Dickinson wonkhe.com/blogs/dfes-ann…

International students bring so much to individual campuses and the UK as a whole

The Graduate visa is a hugely important part of the UK's attractiveness as a study destination

See why we're calling on politicians to commit to keeping the Grad visa👇
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And universities are massive employers. If they go pop, so will the local economies of towns and cities near you. This will hit everyone, not just the universities themselves. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The excellent gabyhinsliff on Britain’s university crisis.

Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding | Gaby Hinsliff dlvr.it/T4mx7H

There’s barely a UG student in the country that wants to, or can do, 360 credits in two years. That people keep thinking there is is classic misreading, signal noise stuff. If anything they want and need more time, not less time, to complete.