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There’s a super new book out from Lancaster Professor of Higher Education Paul Ashwin (and nine colleagues) about what higher education does to the people who go through it.

This blog was kindly authored by Paul Ashwin, Lancaster University. It is based on a new Open Access book Realising the Educational Potential of Mass Higher Education which was written by an internati...

Interested in applying for our fully online PhD Higher Education: Research Evaluation and Enhancement in October 2026? Join one of our monthly online webinars. You will have the opportunity to hear mo...

Interested in applying for our fully online PhD Higher Education: Research Evaluation and Enhancement in October 2026? Join one of our monthly online webinars. You will have the opportunity to hear mo...

“Hacia una evaluación inclusiva: Diversificación y Equidad en la Formación Docente” se titula la 3ª versión de la Escuela de Primavera, actividad organizada por el Centro de Investigación para la Educación Inclusiva y la Escuela de Pedagogía (EPE) de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), instancia que contará con reconocidos expositores nacionales e internacionales, especialistas en evaluación en educación, quienes ofrecerán conferencias y presentaciones que abordarán estos temas desde perspectivas teóricas, prácticas y de investigación aplicada.

In England, where high-stakes testing is common, students’ fear of failure is higher.

Interested in applying for our fully online PhD Higher Education: Research Evaluation and Enhancement in October 2026? Join one of our monthly online webinars. You will have the opportunity to hear mo...

This blog was kindly authored by Paul Ashwin, Professor of Higher Education, Lancaster University. The Office for Students (OfS) and the Department of Education (DfE) have big plans to make the TEF mu...

Please note that the programme is provisional and may be subject to minor changes before the conference. Below is an overview of the programme for the day; a copy of the provisional programme inclu…

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'Corridor Cultures: Transforming school cultures of gender and sexuality in partnership with students, teachers, and school leaders'. Dr Victoria Rawlings, University of Sydney. Free online seminar. ...

Research on sexual violence in universities tends to focus on students, but a study across two countries – England and Australia – shows that staf...

Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.

Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning in the School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University (Temporary one-year post).The School of Social Sciences seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Technol...

We analyse interview data from two projects undertaken in Australia and England to explore gender-related violence (GRV) and its impact on university staff. This focus is novel and important as mos...

The Teaching Excellence Framework’s reliance on existing outcomes and satisfaction data, as proxies for teaching quality, has always invited criticism. But with the OfS now proposing to use it to asse...

Interested in applying for our fully online PhD Higher Education: Research Evaluation and Enhancement in October 2026? Join one of our monthly online webinars. You will have the opportunity to hear mo...

World leading, or not…? Something caught my eye online recently – the publication of the “HEPI/Kaplan Soft Power Index” (LINK). I clicked on it out of curiosity and almost instantly wished I …

In this article, I examine the definition of educational quality in the English higher education system. I examine three phases in the measurement of educational quality, each prompted by the repor...

Universities would look to ‘game’ new metric for testing learning gain, critics warn, with external examination defended as ‘best we’ve got’

All welcome to join 'The Future of Technology in Language Education' event. This event will launch the Language Education Technology Research Group.

Fear of failure is damaging in a host of ways yet is rife in many schools. Drawing on self-worth theory, we explore whether fear of academic failure is higher in education systems with features that ...

We are excited to announce that Andy Tattersall will be the keynote speaker at the conference!  #AcademicTwitter Is Dead — What Died, What Survived, What’s Next X was once the number one place for …

Interested in applying for our fully online PhD Higher Education: Research Evaluation and Enhancement in October 2026? Join one of our monthly online webinars. You will have the opportunity to hear mo...

Booking to attend the conference is now open! The delegate rate to attend the conference is £95 early bird (until 31st October), or £105 standard rate after that. Please use the following link to r…

We live in an era when the old-world order has passed but a new world order is yet to fully take shape: evocatively described by Antonio Gramsci as a time of monsters.  Marked by profound global...

In Person Event – Kings College London. How do you grab the attention of a group of teens at 9am on a Monday morning? How can you change the course of a life through what you say? Whether public speak...

This year, we are delighted to host the 11th international Social Media for Learning in Higher Education conference at Lancaster University, co-chaired by Dr Katy Jordan and Dr Kathy Chandler. The …

The notion of academic freedom dates back to the creation of universities and has long been understood to be central to their vocation. This freedom has come under attack by different actors throughou...

Eight in ten nevertheless say they are satisfied with their course