NoObesity The government’s key priority of reducing childhood obesity through adult education (as announced by Jeremy Hunt in Sept 2015), prompted BU’s Denyse King to write a proposal to Health Education England. Denyse is a Midwifery Lecturer / Public Health Practitioner in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) at Bournemouth University. The proposal outlined her… Read more »
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This part of the blog features news and information about higher education policy and how BU’s research is influencing policy.
HE Policy update – week ending 4 August **updated**
TEF Wonkhe bloggers imagine alternative ways to run (ideally improve) the TEF in Visions for the AlterniTEF – can we do TEF better? Ideas ranged from: individual institution-specific targets as a condition of registration OfS (and therefore accountable under the Higher Education and Research Act); metrics produced through relational analyses and cross referencing – this… Read more »
HE Policy update w/e 28th July 2017
Migration & Brexit – the big news this week was the announcement on Thursday that there would be a major study of EU workers and the role that they play in the UK economy and society. This has been welcomed although there has been criticism of the timing (it should have been started before and… Read more »
Fair Access Research project (FAR) webpages are launched
The FAR project webpages have now been published. BU’s pioneering Fair Access Research project has brought together students, SUBU, professional, service and academic staff from across the university to develop and expand expertise and reflexive practice in the field of fair access to higher education. Each member of the team has brought different knowledge and experiences to a series of… Read more »
HE Policy update w/e 21st July 2017
REF 2021 and outcome of Stern Review – staff selection A blog from David Sweeney on Wonkhe sets out the approach to staff selection post Stern. At BU we wanted all staff to be returned to avoid pressure on the sector to shift staff to teaching only contracts. The new definition will be “all staff with… Read more »
New publication by FHSS PhD student
Congratulations to Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS) PhD student Folashade Alloh and Dr. Pramod Regmi, newly appointed lecturer in International Health. They just published ‘Effect of economic and security challenges on the Nigerian health sector’ in the journal African Health Sciences. The paper is Open Access and can be found here! Well done!… Read more »
HE Policy Update w/e 14th July 2017
Learning gain pilot projects – HEFCE published the first annual report looking at the 13 pilot projects that are looking at how to measure learning gain and the value of the data that such measurements will produce. The final reports won’t be for a while – and then it will be interesting to see what… Read more »
Keynote from BU higher education reform expert on non-academic staff mobility
End of June, management academic Dr Tim Breitbarth (Department of Sport & Physical Activity) was invited to Berlin to provide an opening keynote as part of his EU-funded advisory role to the German Ministry of Research and Education, respectively the German Academic Exchange Service. The one-day seminar on innovative ways to promote and facilitate non-academic staff… Read more »
New publication on Community Hospitals
The Health Services Journal published a commentary this week on Community Hospitals [1]. This online article is written by Dr. Emma Pitchforth who is based at RAND Europe in Cambridge (& BU Visiting Faculty), Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen (Faculty of Health & Social Sciences) and Dr. Ellen Nolte based at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. The… Read more »
HE policy update w/e 7th July 2017
Office for Students Nicola Dandridge (currently Chief Executive of Universities UK) has been appointed as the Chief Executive of the Office for Students (OfS). Justine Greening, Secretary of State for Education, said: “Nicola Dandridge’s knowledge and experience will be key for this important role…The OfS will replace an outdated regulatory system with a framework that… Read more »
Policy Update w/e Friday 30 June 2017
TEF As the sector continues to digest TEF the date to register for appeals has already passed. The Times report that Durham, Liverpool, Southampton and York will be appealing their ratings. Read Jane’s TEF blog published by Wonkhe. The Times Higher have published a comprehensive review of the data. Graduate Outcomes The second NewDLHE consultation… Read more »
HE policy update w/e 23rd June 2017
Two items have dominated this week – the Queen’s Speech at the state opening of Parliament, and the TEF results. Queen’s Speech The Queen’s Speech sets out the government’s legislative agenda for the session of parliament. In a rare departure this year the parliamentary legislative session is planned to last for two years, instead of… Read more »
Retreating from coastal areas is not what comes to mind in the hottest week since 1976…
…unless you are Allan Young, who currently is at Bournemouth, after six weeks of travelling across the USA (Hawaii, California, North Carolina and Florida) and Barbados, as part of his Churchill Fellowship on coastal management. Allan is an urban planner, from Sydney (Australia), currently in the role of Planning Service Leader at EMM Consulting after… Read more »
HE policy update w/e 16th June 2017
New Parliament – On Monday we sent out a special edition policy update to keep you current on the political arrangements as the new government is formed. If you missed it you can read it here. Locally, all the incumbents were re-elected, meaning the whole of Dorset continues to be represented by Conservatives. A breakdown… Read more »
Policy Update – w/e Friday 9 June 2017
All HE news has been dwarfed by the election outcome. At the time of writing we have a minority government in place and it looks as if there will be very uncertain times ahead. The obvious HE angle has been the reports of increased turnout, in particular amongst the young – and the power of… Read more »
Policy and political scene this week: 8 June 2017
Welcome to this week’s political scene. Its been a relatively quiet week in policy land with the main focus on today’s general election, however, gender equality for female academics and the student academic experience survey have hit the news. 2017 Student Academic Experience Survey The 2017 Student Academic Experience Survey results have been released. Wonkhe succinctly… Read more »
BU research and KE policies – do you know where to find them?
To make things easier for colleagues across the University, all of the research and KE policies and procedures are available from the Policies and Procedures section of the Staff Intranet: https://staffintranet.bournemouth.ac.uk/aboutbu/policiesprocedures/ They’re located in the Research section and are organised into handy sub-categories such as BRIAN, pre-award and ethics and integrity.
HE policy update w/e 26th May 2017
Dear all The horrors of the Manchester bombing rightly paused the party bickering this week as each party announced it was suspending campaigning. The role of EU funding in UK research and innovation This week the role of EU funding in UK research and innovation has hit the headlines. A new report by Technopolis Group,… Read more »
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