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A Jisc survey of 27,069 higher and further education students reveals that most are pleased with their digital learning, but areas such as wellbeing, mental health and staff digital skills need more attention.
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Tuition fees represent more than half of UK university income, and unprecedented levels of uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the scale of the student recruitment challenge. University cost increases have outstripped revenue growth, and financial sustainability has become the biggest threat faced by the sector.
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Champions of technology in further education, Jisc among them, have broadly welcomed the enforced shift to online working and learning as a long-overdue catalyst for change in the sector.
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As further education (FE) providers gear up to welcome learners back to campus on 8 March, they are encouraged to make use of an award-winning COVID-19 data modelling app.
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February is LGBT+ History Month - an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history and celebrated by Lancaster University.
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Prospects Hedd, the degree fraud service run by Jisc, has closed 85 websites selling degrees from fake UK universities.
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The mental wellbeing of students and staff has come into sharp focus of late. What can be done to better support them both now and in the future?
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“Saving the mental health of students means changing how we help them, and fast”.
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The pandemic highlighted just how poorly equipped most further education (FE) colleges are to operate digitally.
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An Essex college leader is championing a UK network of virtually connected ‘immersive’ teaching spaces as a means of improving the learner experience, saving money, and solving the teacher shortage problem.