Prof Janet Lord FCCT PFHEA

Pro-Vice Chancellors have special trousers?!? At which university is this?

Ooh this is a handy starter! Thank you! 🙏🏼

I so agree with this! Writing is the way I think best, even if I then delete thousands of words. The process is what counts….

So this is this week- my inaugural lecture entitled ‘What use is a Professor?’ It’s finally written! Everyone welcome on Wednesday; we start with wine and canapés at 4.30pm….

Today we were delighted to see our new partners, Adobe, at our Freshers Fair. All students at ManchesterMet now have FREE access to Adobe Express- a brilliant tool for your studies, for developing digital skills & for your socials! We are proud to be one of the few Adobe Creative Campuses!

Although I always think the name Janet dates us to a particular age!

#EduSky community is now over 3.5k strong!

Hello! FCCT and always looking for new people to talk with 😊

I’ve added a few!

So much more civilised here and most of my people are here too! 💃🏼

2023/24 UK higher education students digital experience insights survey findings

2/2 The #digitaldivide continues -we are not 'all online now'. This is the report: digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk/reports-and-...

2023/24 UK higher education students digital experience insights survey findings

Great WonkHE article today @wonkhe.bsky.social. According to their summary, 42 per cent of students responding to Jisc’s student digital experience insights survey 2023–24 reported problems from having no private area to work – and 34 per cent were impacted by having no suitable device. 1/2

Headline Ofsted grades scrapped 'with immediate effect' Schools will continue to be rated on four sub-judgments until new report cards come in next September

The first step. A long way still to go but this is a good start to address teacher and senior leader well-being as well as the culture of performativity. schoolsweek.co.uk/headline-ofs...

Lovely to see you here! 😊

NEW on Wonkhe: The search for a new head of UKRI is back underway – but there are some subtle differences post-election. Michael Salmon goes line-by-line https://buff.ly/4dYGmxC

Ah this could so easily have been my daughter and I would now be saying ‘well that degree will afford you lots of development opportunities’ with inward eye rolls 🤣🤣

Ah excellent news!

Thank you for including me! Already having some great conversations here 😊

I thought the same! Very happy to be with this excellent group of colleagues!

NEW on Wonkhe: In building more active and engaged pedagogies, many disciplines are taking an experiential turn. Jonny Hall makes the case for collaboration across subject areas https://buff.ly/3XhDI0x

Four ways to give belonging a start-of-term boost Inspiration from other sectors could lead to small-but-impactful changes to start September strong

This great Schools Week article by Rachel Johnson has some ideas about belonging from outside education. We could use them in HE as well as schools & colleges. schoolsweek.co.uk/four-ideas-f...

NEW on Wonkhe: Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson have read the manifestos of this year's student leaders - and find students yearning for connection and lower costs https://buff.ly/44rTgAa

Donald Trump has claimed that the was The Queen's favourite President. He absolutely was not. #CatCheck

This Wendy Cope poem is new to me. It’s quietly magnificent.

This is a fabulous opportunity to work in our Faculty of Health and Education with me and some other amazingly talented colleagues- please do get in touch for a chat if you might be interested.

Check out this job at The Manchester Metropolitan University: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

GCSE results 2023: 7 key trends in England's data GCSE results 2024 are out this morning – here’s your handy Schools Week round up of the key trends

schoolsweek.co.uk/gcse-results...
Those regional disparities are still clear and distressing.

Really interesting read….