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 of [...]
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 for each module [...]
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 a “global [...]
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