Martin Hughes

✍️📚🎧 Writer, Researcher & Podcaster | Ongoing: Curiosity in past, present & future 💚⏳🕰️📅👣🧭🌍🌱🌅🌇🚀💚 Also #loveHE & universities & lifelong learning

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@DaveGorman Nice to see you on the front of this week's MoneyWeek magazine. Glad you wear a checked shirt even when you're working on the farm... https://t.co/mGrsQs9D0E

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"No single model of governance can be suited to every institution," but "The sector needs to move forward as one, rather than as a mishmash of individual institutions". @StevenJones_MCR https://t.co/Yt3mcytlin

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Open access, includes a chapter on education & HE. https://t.co/IUZmxCN093

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BAME underrepresentation: "...a clear example of structural racism: black applicants were much less likely to be shortlisted, interviewed or appointed regardless of their qualifications and experience." https://t.co/a6m145vRxb

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"To avoid customers turning away, universities need to restore a sense of fairness in the eyes of the students. Doing so will cost the sector billions, but not doing so could cost billions more." https://t.co/BXi1NHsE1X

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@mattlodder I'd never even thought about that one. Whoops! The force is strong in us... 🤨

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@mattlodder It took me years too. #togetherinignorance When I had finally realised out loud, my wife gave me a strange look and said, "Yeessss, that's right". I'm not ashamed.

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"Who is TEF for?" - "TEF is for government." - Hear the latest @Wonkhe podcast on the Teaching Excellence Framework. https://t.co/Mh9lC67syx

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@ted_harsh @markmleach Your tweet made me smile earlier. I've heard others ask this of Dearing before. :)

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People react to the #HEreview, @markmleach describes his nightmare, and @ted_harsh laments: https://t.co/TkLNsg1V4y

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I just published “Not Being Left Alone. Reviewing Post-18 Education & Going Beyond Universities.” https://t.co/f9fbBNvBjr

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"...if I’d stopped at one son I would always have had that little voice at the back of my head telling me that if I could do it, and if he could do it, then everything is fine. Maybe everyone else should just buckle down and get on with it." https://t.co/RUdqdzfO0R

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On the superficiality of "doing the maths". https://t.co/6p0lq5h1PL

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"Fixing the repayment threshold is like fixing a tap in a burning building." @AmateyDoku https://t.co/JrZIXM9eSJ

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BYOD Digital Exams at Brunel University https://t.co/qnYUQQiWa9 #altc

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John Holmwood on "Academic click-baiting and the neo-liberal university" (Discover Society) https://t.co/SHLk9hLYLF

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@dkernohan I'm getting there.

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Are policy wonks mostly talking amongst themselves? https://t.co/ic7ABPLtUg #LoveHE #keepwonking

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@dkernohan Ah, I've finally found where you can copy a link to the post. https://t.co/ic7ABPLtUg

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@dkernohan You've heard of @wonkhe haven't you? ;-)