This is how you understand class as a student who works often full time on the nightshifts & who gets to enjoy the benefits of the student experience

ft.com/content/4270fc…

Our Deputy VC Prof. Prof Damien Page opened BNU’s first ever Drug and Alcohol Conference this morning, partnered with The Oasis Partnership 👏

Be sure to check out our Instagram account to follow the conference in real time: @_bnuni 🌟

Delighted to open our inaugural Buckinghamshire New University and Oasis Drug Partnership drug and alcohol conference. As a university that believes passionately in social impact, it’s wonderful to be working with dozens of partners in this crucial area, making real change in the community

Congratulations Marli!🥈🌟

#BNUproud

You know what’s not rare in universities? The nurses, teachers and social workers that graduate. The artists and the actors and the dancers. The engineers, the computer scientists, the historians. The students transforming the lives of their families. And the academics and…

Prof Damien Page Really interesting point Damien, I think one simple way is to invite and encourage back office staff to see front of house, from the point of induction, a blog post I wrote last year on this - thesedablog.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/the… - so much of this is culture, modelled by leadership too.

Few would argue that education is meaningful work. Meaningfulness is what attracted most of us to education and what gets us up in the morning.

Interesting article here that focuses on what makes work meaningful beyond the *belief* that it is. It argues that meaning is about…

Really enjoyed taking part in this podcast talking about class and education. Vital conversations to have rss.com/podcasts/class…

Important survey results here from ⁦Higher Education Policy Institute⁩ showing that a third of students are at risk of dropping out because of worsening finances. Social mobility is impossible unless financial support is increased and increased quickly hepi.ac.uk/2024/05/02/new…

Prof Damien Page Agreed, I am sharing my son’s story at the autism show.

So much talk about disabled people entering the workplace, so little attention paid to their experience *in* the workplace.

Good article here on why transparent reporting on disability inclusion is so vital. It highlights the discomfort that some organisations experience with…

We are thé working class if we work a normal job and can’t afford to take an unpaid sabbatical. Most of us are 6 months away from homelessness if we can’t work for any reason

So delighted for Mahmood. A truly skilled educator and a really great colleague

Point this out again. Everyone needs to start listening to #disabled and #neurodivergent people. Not experts, not people around us, not the guy you got on TV, not the people who diagnose, nor the MP.

Actual disabled and neurodivergent people themselves.

Congratulations to Mahmood Anjoyeb, Senior Lecturer in our School of Nursing and Midwifery BNU School of Nursing and Midwifery, who was awarded 'University Educator of the Year' at the Student Nursing Times Awards last week 🎉

Read about Mahmoud's win on our website 👉 bit.ly/3QlFAkU

Superb session of the Working Class Leaders in Higher Education Network this afternoon with one of the top exec research partners in the UK, Peter Viqueira from Odgers Bernstein. CV writing tips, structure of covering letters, inclusive recruitment, the art of interviews, salary…

Education is thinking work. Thinking about how to educate. Thinking about ideas, concepts, practice. Thinking when planning, thinking when embroiled in education, thinking about learning, teaching, researching, writing. Reactive thought. Reflective thought.

But education is…

Leadership is about time.

It’s about creating more time. For innovation. For connection. For reflection.

It’s about stopping the waste of time, on pointless admin, on meetings that could be an email, on activity that is for the sake of activity.

It’s about saving time…

‘To truly flourish, companies must appreciate that these Black leaders have to uphold the traditional expectations of exceptional leadership in addition to other responsibilities required by community bonds’.

Great article on how organisations (design and tech here but it’s…

If you want to understand the culture of an organisation, there are a number of steps you could take. You could send out a survey. You could hold focus groups. You could employ an expensive consultancy to do a ‘deep dive’.

But to save some time and cash, if you want to *really*…