The HEDx podcast turns 50 with its next episode. In doing so it will feature Michael Crow of Arizona State University as a global leader in higher education innovation and leadership, outlining a bold and differentiated global strategy. The last ...
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[Click here to read part 1] Neurogenesis For centuries it was believed that the brain was unable to regenerate. But neuroscientific evidence since the 1990s in particular has demonstrated that to be wrong. Further to and adding to this, Sandra ...
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Many global universities have long held positions as being institutions with a reputation. When surveys are made of which professions we trust and believe in, scientists and professors usually feature toward the top of any lists, and politicians, as an example, ...
More »HEDx podcast – Piloting innovation from a civic university in the UK, episode 49
Professor Malcolm Press CBE joins the HEDx podcast as the VC of Manchester Metropolitan University. He shares insights into his commitment to his staff and students and the commitment Manchester Met has to its civic setting in a major city ...
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The recently released Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022, which measures university contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides some really important insights both globally and nationally. At the global level there are approximately 300 more universities ranked, ...
More »Our amazing brain plasticity and the importance of social connectedness, part 1: Opinion
The importance of brain plasticity is emphasised by Dr Norman Doidge who, as observed by Professor Ken Purnell (Head of Educational Neuroscience at CQUniversity Australia), stated that it is “one of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century”. The literature ...
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Around May 1952 philosopher Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872-2 February 1970) wrote an essay ‘Reflections on my eightieth birthday’ which was reproduced in Portraits from Memory (first published 1956) and as an addendum at the end of the third and ...
More »As cyber security obligations for private companies and directors grow, orgs turn to SaaS
A Bill recently passed in parliament represents a new benchmark in the way governments are willing to impose cyber security obligations on private businesses to protect national interests. Cyber attacks against businesses and government entities of all sizes have grown ...
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While we might recognise the verbal elements that make up the recently coined word holistorexia its meaning is not immediately obvious. It’s a combination of holist(ic), as in holistic medicine, and (an)orexia which literally means “lack of desire or appetite”. ...
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How many ideas and exciting bottom-up attempts to do something radical and different in professional education, or using educational technology or pedagogy, or experimenting with admissions practices, have been pulled back by the barriers of a university manual of procedures ...
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