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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · 28d

📚 New book published!

Simon Marginson (University of Bristol and the University of Oxford) and Vassiliki Papatsiba (University of Cardiff) have published the book “Brexit, EU Students and UK Higher Education" (Bloomsbury).

🔗 Access the Open Access ebook here: chet.bristol.ac.uk/files/2025/0...

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Jul 7

💡New academic paper!

Simon Marginson, CHET staff researcher and professor of higher education @soebristol.bsky.social, has published his latest academic paper.

🔗 Access here ▶ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#HigherEd #Research #Globalisation #Internationalisation #Geopolitics

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · May 19

🚨New blog post!

University Finance and Managing the Margins of Error

In their latest blog post, @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social and @huwmorris.bsky.social discussed the financial challenges facing #UK #universities.

🔗Access the article in @hepi-news.bsky.social Blog ▶ www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/05/19/u...

University Finance and Managing the Margins of Error - HEPI

UK universities face stark financial contrasts, with sustainability hinging on margins, international student flows and course-level economics.

www.hepi.ac.uk

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Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social · May 2

Should Generative AI tools be used for the UK’s REF? Have your say here: tinyurl.com/4ca8h2rm

@lawriephipps.co.uk @proftomcrick.com @rodolfo-benites.bsky.social @chet-bristol.bsky.social @soebristol.bsky.social
@jisc.bsky.social

Should Generative AI tools be used for the REF?

This survey is intended to collect views from across the UK higher education community as to whether generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools should be used for Research Excellence Framework (...

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Apr 4

🚀New report launched!

The report “The Benefits of Hindsight: Reconsidering Higher Education Choices” was officially launched in London yesterday.

The report was published by the University of Bristol, the HEPI, and Advance HE.

🔗Access the full report here ▶ bhrp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Mar 12

⏰Get your tickets today!

Join us for our sixth seminar “The death of prestige: disbanding a rankings imperative” with Leslie Gonzales, Michelle Stack, Georgiana Mihut, PhD and Camille B. Kandiko Howson.

📅Date: Wed, March 26th
🕐Time: 1:00 p.m. (GMT)
📍ONLINE

Register here ▶ shorturl.at/cS6U7

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Mar 7

⏪ Did you miss our first fifth seminar from our #HigherEdSeminarSeries?

Don’t worry! The recording is now available.

Seminar 5 | From higher education to employment and public citizenship, with Andy Westwood, Ellen Hazelkorn, James Robson, and Martin Kitchener.

🔗 shorturl.at/rkFe6

Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨Final Call!

Come join us next Wednesday for our fifth seminar with Andy Westwood, Professor Ellen Hazelkorn, James Robson, and Martin Kitchener.

📅Date: Wednesday, February 26th.
🕐Time: 1:00 p.m. (GMT).
📍This is an ONLINE event.

Register here ▶ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-highe...

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Feb 7

🌟 Welcome to CHET!

We are thrilled to welcome Daniel Neyland as a new Associate.
Daniel is co-director of the @bdfi.bsky.social Bristol Digital Futures Institute.

🔗Explore his profile: chet.bristol.ac.uk/our-people/a...

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Feb 5

✨ Welcome to Bristol!

Simon Marginson has become a staff researcher at @chet-bristol.bsky.social after starting his new position as Professor of Higher Education at the School of Education, University of Bristol.

🔗Explore his profile here: chet.bristol.ac.uk/our-people/s...

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Basma Hajir @basmahajir.bsky.social · Feb 3

How can higher education contribute to peacebuilding and recovery in post-dictatorship Syria? My thoughts in this @ukfiet.bsky.social blog:

t.co/yNIZ8ri863

@chet-bristol.bsky.social @soebrisresearch.bsky.social

https://www.ukfiet.org/2025/a-historic-opportunity-the-role-of-higher-education-in-syrias-post-dictatorship/

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Jan 29

🎟️🎟️🎟GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY!

Registration is now OPEN for the upcoming three online #HigherEdSeminarSeries.

🔗Explore the entire programme and register today: chet.bristol.ac.uk/seminarseries/

#HigherEd #Marketisation #EducationPolicy #Employment #PublicCitizenship #Prestige #Rankings #Polycrisis

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Jan 22

🚨New seminar alert!

💬#AcademicFreedom and the shifting #geopolitics of #HigherEd and #research by Katja Brøgger (Aarhus University).

📅Wednesday, 29 Jan 2025
⏰13:00 – 14:00 (GMT)
📍This is an ONLINE-only event

🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/eBI6Q

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Jan 21

👋Hello, everyone!

We’re back! We hope you’re as excited about the start of a new year as we are.

We look forward to seeing you online or in person very soon. Please follow us here and on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/cent...

Stay tuned for more news! ✨ ✨ ✨

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Dec 19

🌟Welcome to CHET!

We are thrilled to welcome Hans de Wit and Tanner Mirrlees as new CHET Associates.

They join our fantastic community of committed academics and experts who conduct research and drive global transformations in #HigherEd.

🔗Explore their profiles here: shorturl.at/bCujS

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Dec 12

🚨New blog post alert!

In his latest blog post, @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social, Co-director of @chet-bristol.bsky.social, discusses which individuals are best suited to lead #universities in the challenging landscape of the UK #HigherEd sector.

🔗Access here ➡️ shorturl.at/dLOLU

#Leadership #Academia

Let's look outside academia for university leaders | LSE Higher Education

With universities in crisis, the traditional choice of an academic as leader might not be the wisest, suggests LSE HE Blog Fellow Richard Watermeyer

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Dec 9

🚨🚨🚨Final Call!

Join us on our next seminar “The reshaping of #HigherEd by #DigitalTech” with @davidstaley8.bsky.social,
@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social, Darren Moon & @jkom.bsky.social.

📅Date: Wed, Dec 11th.
🕐Time: 1:00 p.m. (GMT).
📍This is an ONLINE event.

🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/hi5fz

The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies

This event is part of the #HigherEdSeminarSeries

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Dec 7

Hans reflects on his participation in our recent webinar, “Undoing Internationalisation”, where he discussed prevailing trends influencing internationalization processes in #HigherEd alongside experts Jenna Mittelmeier, Malcolm Tight, and Catherine Montgomery.

🔗Watch recording ▶ shorturl.at/qyLDJ

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Dec 7

📰” Undoing internationalisation is a problem, not a solution”
In his recent article for University World News, Hans de Wit, from the Boston College’s Center for International Higher Education, explores the future of internationalization in #HigherEd globally.

🔗Full article ▶ shorturl.at/qQO5t

Undoing internationalisation is a problem, not a solution

The radical ‘undoing’ of internationalisation does not mean a return to the traditional values of cooperation, exchange and solidarity. It goes ha...

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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · Dec 6

Next Wednesday, I will be speaking at the "Reconciling Marketization: Understanding the New Political Economy of Higher Education" symposium, on the theme "The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies." Please register below @chet-bristol.bsky.social

The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies

This event is part of the #HigherEdSeminarSeries

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Dec 5

🚨New publication alert!

Academics’ Weak(ening) Resistance to #GenerativeAI: The Cause and Cost of Prestige?

By @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social, @donnalanclos.com, @lawriephipps.bsky.social, Hanne Shapiro, @danielleguizzo.bsky.social and @cathryn-knight.bsky.social

🔗https://shorturl.at/fW7Pi

Academics’ Weak(ening) Resistance to Generative AI: The Cause and Cost of Prestige? - Postdigital Science and Education

The disruptive potential of generative AI (GenAI) tools to academic labour is potentially vast. Yet as we argue herein, such tools also represent a continuation of the inequities inherent to academia’...

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Nov 28

⏰Get your tickets today!

Join @davidstaley8.bsky.social @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Darren Moon and @jkom.bsky.social on Dec 11th at 1:00 p.m. (GMT) for our next online seminar “The reshaping of #HigherEd by #DigitalTech”.

🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/ifwnA

#HigherEducation #Digitalisation #AI

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Nov 27

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hello, Bluesky! 👋

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