The Higher Education Catch-22: Two Decades of Innovation, Stasis, and the Quest for Purpose

As I finish my twenty-second year in higher education, at the coal face, it can sometimes feel like a high-speed treadmill moving backwards. There is a recurring theme that in this short blog post I will reflect on, the "Catch-22" of transformation, largely from a UK higher education perspective. The constant rhetoric is that universities [...]

By |2026-06-21T08:56:16+00:00June 21st, 2026|Education|Comments Off on The Higher Education Catch-22: Two Decades of Innovation, Stasis, and the Quest for Purpose

Rhetoric and Reality of Higher Education

This blog post is a reflection of two events I went to at the end of October at Keele University and at the UK Council of Graduate Education, both where I presented and spoke to some brilliant people, but it made me think of the well known English phrase ‘rhetoric and reality’. To put [...]

By |2022-04-15T13:03:38+00:00November 11th, 2019|Education|Comments Off on Rhetoric and Reality of Higher Education
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