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Student and University Administrator. Mostly HE stuff, no weather reports or sports commentary.
Headington/Oxford & Bristol
Joined May 2011
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This is the disabled car parking space outside Beech House this morning. For well over a year Unite Students has used it to store their bins. The building was constructed with a bin store inside. This is unacceptable from @UNITEGroup
While it’s excellent to spend time sorting out litter for #oxclean it can be disheartening to find big companies opting out. Unacceptable state outside Beech House this morning. @BrookesCLO - does your remit run to educating accommodation providers like @Unite_Student?
ALT Terrible state of rubbish outside Beech House. Over-flowing bins and rubbish strewn about.
It’s not as bad as before, but Dorset House staff have reverted to leaving the bins in the disabled parking space rather than the inside store.
Here Thurs 9pm, Fri 6am, Fri 8pm and Sat 10am. NB same bag of rubbish next to bins for 2 days.
ALT Dorset House Thursday evening
ALT Dorset House early Friday morning
ALT Dorset House Friday evening
ALT Dorset House Saturday morning
While people worry about the regulation of #AI, the UK HE regulator has launched its AI Helper. Providing a new service of writing limericks about the TEF, it is also salutary about the need to check and verify information that a bot offers you.
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This is a little embarrassing- the Guardian uses z scores. So the place at the top gets ‘100’ and everyone else is ranked against that.
NEW: Oxford University has been ranked first in the @Guardian University Guide 2027 🎓
We achieved an overall Guardian score of 100 in this year’s ranking.
OfS Register News. 12 more providers on, all of them FECs in the Approved (fee cap) category, no conditions.
OfS Register News: one new provider. European School of Economics is ‘Approved’ with no fee cap (it currently charges £28k or €28k depending if you are in London or one of 5 EU cities). Its degree courses are validated by Richmond.
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OfS Register News: one fewer providers. In the big merger of the summer, Furness College joined Blackpool and The Flyde College. The counter now reads 428 providers even though there are 425 in the spreadsheet.
ALT Number of registered providers: 428. There are 428 rows in the spreadsheet but three of them are headers. There are 425 entries. Plus they’ve adjusted down the counter by removing a provider - not adding any.
Mergers and acquisitions are big news in UK HE. Last week the OfS removed the old version of Regent’s University London from its register after it was acquired 6 years ago. A blog post on how mergers are treated strangely on the OfS register.
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Again the @RoyalMail service in East Oxford is failing to meet basic standards. Things sent first class - a slim package or a magazine - are taking over a week to arrive. Sensible companies now demonstrating this by putting their own posting date on to prove this.
ALT Cover of private eye envelope - mailed on 4 August arrived 13 August.
The English HE regulatory system is requiring more providers to register with the OfS. They probably have 60 providers to process in the next two years. In the last year two new providers got on the register.
This week’s blog:
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The 40 recommendations in this report are supposedly readily implementable. Here I look at rec 1 - student number controls (which we have done before), but not as a vehicle for rec 2 - cutting student numbers by 30%.
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2/ Read @Policy_Exchange’s latest report, ‘Tarnished Towers: Fixing England’s Broken Higher Education System’ here 👇
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What remains of institutional identity after a higher education merger, (especially when a campus closes)?
In this blog I look at the final remnants - books in the library.
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The history of UK higher education expansion includes various attempts to do spatial planning. A presentation from 17 years ago (I have slide shows as old as our students) tried to map this. #Histed
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