We all know instinctively that diversity matters. We know it from everyday lore sayings: “two heads are better than one” – which at the most basic level is a reminder that we all need others, with different perspectives and different points of view. There’s a good deal of evidence from management consultancy surveys that more…
This year is the twenty-fifth anniversary of our university status. It’s an opportunity to celebrate, of course, but also to launch our thinking about the ‘Hallam Difference’. Here’s a birthday message from me:
There’s a probably interminable debate about what universities are for, which provides a backdrop to working in them. The historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto covered virtually all the bases in a piece he wrote in 2011: “there are only two worthwhile objectives for everything we do, in the university and out of it: enhancing life and preparing…
Term’s in full-swing; the buildings are full of life and the corridors, foyers and cafés are busy. I was delighted to have been asked to do some teaching last week, and taught an undergraduate education studies group – which, amidst all the talk of strategies and budgets, stakeholders and planning, policy and long-term thinking which…
There’s a remarkable finding in one of the early reports from the Millennium Cohort Study – the vast research programme following the lives of 19,000 children born in the year 2000. The mothers were asked what they wanted for their children as they grew up. More than nine out of ten said they wanted their children to go…