Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET

📚 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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💡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

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.

🚨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...

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

🚀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

⏰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

⏪ 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

🚨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...

🌟 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...

✨ 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...

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

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

🎟️🎟️🎟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

🚨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

👋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! ✨ ✨ ✨

🌟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

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

🚨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

The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies This event is part of the #HigherEdSeminarSeries

🚨🚨🚨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

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

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...

📰” 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

The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies This event is part of the #HigherEdSeminarSeries

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

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’...

🚨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

⏰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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