Summa cum laude
Summa cum laude
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Episodes of Summa cum laude
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On Thursday and Friday of last week (June 10th and 11th), up to 200 people gathered in NUI Galway for the joint Galway Symposium-NAIRTL Conference on student engagement. With 6 keynotes, multiple parallel streams including workshops and 23 Pech
Yesterday I attended the DRHEA-supported seminar given by Simon Marginson (Melbourne and great renown) which looked at the possibility of higher education being considered as a public good on a global perspective. It was certainly hugely differ
Yesterday's Irish Independent reports of Hibernia College's rising profits. The private, online training company has been providing courses in education and other professional development areas for some time now, expanding to cover teacher trai
Yesterday morning, in the shelter of the Coach-house of Dublin Castle, over a hundred people shook off the rain and gathered to celebrate teaching in higher education. The National Teaching Excellence Awards (coordinated by NAIRTL) are an annua
Well, it has been a while! Now we've restarted our commitment to blog on HE issues, despite the fact that there is a deluge of postings, comment site and new blogs chattering away about the crisis, or crises hitting our sector across the globe
What's the role of culture in innovation? As I hinted in my previous posting on the TEDxGalway event, I firmly believe that we often underplay the importance on place within higher education. Whilst universities understandably struggle to posit
I've always believed that one of the areas in which many universities could improve is in greater recognition of the fact that they are essentially cities of ideas. What I mean is that the phrase 'scholarly community' is rarely realised in prac
Had a very enjoyable experience in room 828 of the IoE in London on Thursday at the gathering convened to mark the JEP's 25th year of publication with the discussion centred around responses to Andrew Gamble's book 'The Spectre at the Feast: C
Some interesting sessions on the second day of the conference in a baking hot Hatfield Business Park. I attended presentations on the use of twitter by journalism students to establish professional connections, undertake fact-checking etc. Som
Day 1 at the de Havilland campus of the University of Hertfordshire. The opening keynote was delivered by the VC of Hull, Calie Pretorius, and in keeping with the standard set of talks new VCs seem to be provided with in their leadership traini
I'm delighted to say that the videos from the Galway Symposium 2010 and TEDxGalway are beginning to appear off the production line and as they do so, we'll link to them here as per our annual tradition. The first recording is the keynote given
I attended the DCU/ASU conference on Re-thinking the University the other day and found it an interesting experience. I should first point out that I'm pleased that Ferdinand organised and hosted this event in an attempt to bring to a head some
Phew!! That was an epic few days at the Symposium and TEDxGalway, but hopefully really enjoyable and stimulating for those in attendance. I got a huge buzz out of it and am now in recovery mode. Thanks to all the team here for organising and r
It might be raining in Galway at the moment, but that's just because it's a bank holiday Monday! The sun is predicted to reappear as the 8th Galway Symposium on Higher Education begins on Thursday. This event sees an action-packed programme of
The latest issue of the journal Higher Education Policy explores the relationship between what the editors call 'two great European ideas': Bologna and Humboldt. If you are interested in the papers, they have been made available for free online
Now that Ning has gone all fee-paying and google wave has opened to the public, guess which platform has been suggested for conference related discussions? Yup, you can find it starting on the wave entitled "Creative Thinking - re-imagining th
I know, I know...the more you try to do at the same time, the greater the chance things go awry, but what the heck.... Not only will our Symposium be running on June 10th and 11th (and many thanks to all those who have registered - great to se
Ferdinand von Prondzynski has sparked a lively debate on his blog here and here which I have enjoyed following. The crux of the matter is whether academic life and its intellectual pursuits are being eroded by the managers who wish to ensure th
Duna Sabri has a fascinating paper in the latest edition of the Journal of Education Policy, which probes the role of (or, rather, lack thereof) academics in the developing policy discourse in higher education in England. In particular, the pap
The RSA recently asked a bunch of famous folk and others hanging around in their building in London what they think 'everyone should know' and should be included in a common curriculum. What do you think?
Yesterday I attended an event organized by the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) in London. The topic was 'Higher Education in Recessionary Times' and the format of the day was that a panel of speakers made brief presentations,
Now with the passing of the vernal equinox, the daylight hours begin their stretch and the sun shines more kindly on the land, with flowers budding, leaves re-covering the trees, growth, hope and optimism building towards the peak on June 10th
The latest edition of Arts & Humanities in Higher Education is a special edition containing a number of papers by keynote speakers at the 2008 Galway Symposium. These papers were developed from their presentations. It's great to see that we can
If you would like to discuss aspects of creativity in education then feel free to sign-up for our new ning-based social network and start posting!
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 8th Galway Symposium on Higher Education which will be held on the 10th and 11th June, 2010. This year’s theme is “Creativity in Higher Education” and our conception is broad, encompassi
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