“Death by a thousand cuts”
A senior teaching fellow sets out how much of a university’s teaching depends on unpaid extra work — the marking done at weekends, the pastoral conversations nobody counts, the modules covered when a colleague leaves and is not replaced — and argues that goodwill is now being budgeted for. Students feel it as slower feedback and shorter office hours rather than as anything announced.
Bristol names the leader of its first overseas campus
The University of Bristol has revealed who will run its Mumbai Enterprise Campus, its first international campus. Overseas campuses are how the sector now plans to grow, since the government’s strategy expects expansion from transnational education rather than from students arriving here. For students in Bristol it changes nothing immediately; it is where the institution’s attention and investment go next.