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Why is higher education SO bad?

Posted on November 23, 2020November 23, 2020by Richard Budd
park bench

I often wonder how commonly held the myth of a certain kind of higher education is—of tweed-jacketed dons in lifelong jobs, with iron-plated pensions, spending lots of time with happy, engaged students, teaching with passion, with space for slow, thoughtful scholarship.

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“People are busier, there are more journals, there’s pressure to publish. It’s an escalation of everything”: Interview with Rosemary Deem

Posted on July 14, 2020September 9, 2020by Richard Budd
plants

In this edition of our “Meet the Editors” interview series, Richard Budd talks to Rosemary Deem, a co-editor of Higher Education. Rosemary is Professor of Higher Education Management in the School […]

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The great university covid regression?

Posted on May 1, 2020November 22, 2020by Richard Budd
fork in the road

“Pre-covid” life in the UK almost feels like an aeon ago, but we’re only six weeks into it. At the end of February I was in London, co-hosting an event with colleagues, and was still recruiting and interviewing participants for my research project in mid-March. How things have changed. […]

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UK University Strike: Pensions, Pay and Precarity

Posted on December 8, 2019February 23, 2020by Richard Budd

Colleagues outside UK may have noticed, on social media or elsewhere, that a significant number of UK staff, both academic and administrative, have been on strike for the past couple of weeks. Those not so familiar with recent […]

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Academic careers in the UK: how it works

Posted on August 2, 2019August 5, 2019by Richard Budd
London

The expectation in the UK is that you will probably spend the bulk of your academic life doing both teaching and research. While this is probably true, how you get there, and what it looks like if/when you do, will vary. Some aspects of academic careers here look good […]

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Lost in Space – the unsettlement of interdisciplinarity

Posted on June 22, 2019November 22, 2020by Richard Budd

I’ve been feeling increasingly rootless over the past few months, but in a weirdly good way. Well, mostly good. I’m bringing in loads of new ideas to my work, which is intellectually stimulating but also quite tricky as the scope of those ideas is […]

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Protected by their shields? Why are UK universities increasingly adopting coats of arms as their logos?

Posted on December 17, 2018July 8, 2019by Richard Budd
UK university

In what is now a classic paper, Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell (1983) explained that companies/firms in any given field (loosely speaking, an industry) often resemble each other after a time. They described how the process […]

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