This has been a well run conference: 11am – 6pm Thursday & 9am Friday until 12.30pm – a sensible schedule that allows for people to attend the whole event. Richard and I did a uvac-idibl-presentation slot that wnt down well, lots of commanality with the Middlesex Work-based learning approach as described by Alan Durrant Head [...]
Some good suggestions in this report by Paul Ramsden, the chief executive of the Higher Education Academy: Universities should offer ‘pick and mix’ degrees, says report: – build up qualifications from modules taken at different times in several universities – make it easier to switch between full-time and part-time study, possibly by making students pay [...]
UK universities should take online lead: “UK universities should push to become world leaders in online higher education, ministers will say tomorrow, despite the failure of the UK e-University four years ago. The universities secretary, John Denham, is likely to call not for a revival of the UKeU, which collapsed in 2004, but to develop [...]
