

What really matters in higher education? Is it state-of-the-art facilities? Is it the curriculum or the timetable? It’s the people! What stayed with me from this conference was a message that kept coming up in many talks: the human factor, the fact that authentic engagement needs human attention and grows…

The higher education sector is undergoing rapid change. Institutions are navigating an onslaught of pressures: funding cuts, restructuring, a generational shift in student demographics, and…

Before writing this post, we thought long and hard about what to say. At first, we asked ourselves whether the messages we were trying to…

Over the course of one month, I attended four conferences: the Centre for Research in Education and Social Transformation (CREST) Conference, the Trent Institute for…

Universities often position their efforts around inclusion and closing awarding gaps as neutral and well-intentioned. Yet, despite years of reform, inequitable outcomes persist – especially…

I’m Laurel, a teaching and scholarship academic at Nottingham Trent University, and I manage the Bioscience Scholarship blog for the Bioscience Scholarship Research Centre.