Education – Page 7 – My Conversations

05/09/2018

SLS Day 2

SLS Day 2 commenced after a pretty poor night’s sleep. It needed to be good. Day one set the bar pretty high (oops, already used that pun on Twitter yesterday – can I get away with it twice given that it’s not quite as obvious a pun unless you read the tweet and/or my account… Continue reading

Conferences, Legal Education and Training, Uncategorized

Academics, Acccess to Justice, anxiety, Education, ethics, Law, Learning, Legal education, legal history, Mental Health, Research, resilience, rule of law, students, teaching, well being

12/07/2017

Excellence in HE Conference 2017

A little earlier this year something possessed me to think it might be a good idea to present something at the Excellence in HE conference that Leeds Beckett hosts annually. It’s run by the quality team so goodness knows what I was thinking. I either wasn’t or I was feeling disruptive and a bit naughty.… Continue reading

Conferences, Higher Education Generally, Uncategorized

Academia, Conference, Education, Excellence, higher education, Leeds Beckett University, Quality, students, teaching, TEF

29/08/2015

Performance related pay? Really?

I got a bit cross about an article in the Times Higher about paying academics bonuses to boost our productivity. You can read the article here. The article reports on a study carried out in Germany which suggests that paying bonuses (it seems some fairly substantial bonuses) to academics means that productive academics cluster together… Continue reading

Higher Education Generally

Academia, Academics, Education, performance related pay