£37.4 billion net economic contribution. The enlivening of communities and classrooms. Global soft power value, global literacy. Cross subsidy funding of research. Cross subsidy of niche courses. Cultural richness and perspective.
In a rational world, nations would genuinely welcome 1/
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"For thousands of years, women tended to give birth in an upright position – whether kneeling, using birthing stools or squatting. In fact, squatting can enlarge the pelvic diameter by at least 2.5cm (1in), while working with gravity makes it far easier to give birth."
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BMJ reporting that government has said that 1000 extra training posts for resident doctors will no longer be available from this April. Stupid. Impact of resident doctors on patient care and healthcare system make it essential to provide adequate training posts for them
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and what you learned from failure, talk about your journey.
Use AI to gain information about the employer and the role, use it to think through the job description and how your skills match, use it to assess ‘fit’ but write it yourself.
Good organisations recruit authentic people.
personality, a perspective, an expertise honed through the realities of work rather than the artifice of LLMs.
Talk about real impact, real students, real leadership. (I’ve always used the rule of three before AI saturated prose with it so don’t even). Talk about the ‘how’ of success 2/
Want your job application to stand out? Don’t use AI.
For me, real writing is a differentiator for recruitment. When a panel are assessing applications, they want to hear a voice, they want to get an idea of what you would bring, real experiences rather than the generic. They want to feel a 1/
Astronaut in space suit surrounded by his beautiful family, including their dog
Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud..
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Settings that didn’t require code-switching or adoption of regional pronunciation, settings where theory was expounded in the most resonant authentic accents.
While accent bias in the sector is very real, we must remember that there are universities with less obsession with class and elitism, 4/
Educational access is economic. Attainment is economic. Graduate outcomes are economic.
If social mobility is the goal, then support must be weighted towards those with the least.
Not rhetoric. Not positioning. Real investment in the students who stand to gain the most.
universities that challenge class and elitism and celebrate regional, international and working class accents. That more and more senior leaders are being appointed without code-switching gives me hope. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
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Incredible! Truly shocking!
It's almost like science works?!💉🛡️👶
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Use AI to automate the mundane, of course. Let it do the boring work, the routine, by all means. Let it augment creativity and enhance the social. But preserve the human at all costs.
Second, universities perform the creation of new knowledge rather than producing summaries of what already exists. Like learning, research is intrinsically human, endlessly creative, curious, perpetually inventive.
AI will kill universities according to those making a fortune from AI. Everything will be free so what’s the point of higher education. Intelligence will be like a utility. Institutions of knowledge will become obsolete as AI democratises knowledge.
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It asks people - including the leader - to tolerate uncertainty and push against the easy consensus.
That’s the real test.
The decision that avoids conflict.
But the right thing in leadership is rarely the comfortable option. It’s not always popular. It’s not always supported. And it’s almost never celebrated in the moment.
More often, it challenges the status quo. It creates discomfort. 2/
The simplest leadership advice is: do the right thing. Simple. But problematic.
Because not everyone is a good judge of what the right thing actually is.
Too often, the right thing becomes whatever carries the least personal risk. The decision that protects reputation, position or relationships.
But more than anything, people get time to think. Universities run on ideas. Yet our diaries often leave very little room for thinking.
Sometimes the most productive thing an organisation can do is remove something, especially meetings, and give people the space to do the work that really matters.
Six months ago we introduced meeting-free Fridays.
Fridays have become the day people catch up, read, write, plan. New ideas get bounced around. Publications and projects get shared. New resources developed, new technology experimented with.
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Today marks #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay. Long COVID continues to impact many nursing staff.
If you’re living with long COVID, or supporting a colleague who is, visit our website to access resources, advice and support ⬇️ (1/2)
Sending love this Mother’s Day to all the incredible mums in our community. 💐Your strength and resilience inspire us every day.
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per night. Free meals, cheapest coffee in town. The Big Deal providing over £200 of free cultural, sporting and development events per month. Compressed timetables. Flexible delivery. Onsite recruitment agency for part time work, including on campus.
Identify a need, meet it. That’s it.
the ‘need more trades’ narratives (but for other people’s kids, naturally).
Sudden concern for the loan book, access work treated as reputational drag, schools of privilege targeted for recruitment. Marketing and pronouncements and interviews that code prestige, not impact.
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Elitism in higher education never went away but it’s becoming more acceptable again.
As competition intensifies, some universities are quietly rediscovering the comfort of exclusivity.
We see it in the silent acquiescence to the Mickey Mouse narratives, the ‘too many students’ narratives, 1/
Universities don’t just reflect inequality, they can reinforce or interrupt it. The real question for leaders is whether access remains a core value or a convenient casualty.
