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14 Jun In conversation with Lelia Green

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By David Myton Upon a time Lelia Green worked as a bus conductor on the No19, a red double-decker that trundled back and forth through the streets of an English town. With a ticket machine strapped across her front, she would usher the passengers on board, then...

12 Sep Creativity key to success in the age of digital upheaval: HECG Highered Trendwatch

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By DAVID MYTON Increasing demands from employers for digitally literate graduates are substantially driving changes in edutech and the way highered education is being delivered, according to a new report. Emerging new fields such as robotics, autonomous transportation, biotechnology, and genomics call for graduate skill-sets centred on...

19 Jul When humanities majors have the edge over STEM grads: HECG Highered Trendwatch

Arts degrees, Creativity, HECG, Higher Education, Humanities, Innovation by David Myton 0 Comments

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By DAVID MYTON Much of the higher education discourse today is centred on the need for students to study “practical” subjects ranging from STEM to those such as accounting, commerce and business-related topics that segue into the needs and demands of employers. And why wouldn’t it be...

23 May Finding new models of innovation to reach out in help : HECG Trendwatch

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By David Myton Some months ago Thomson Reuters announced we are now living in the most innovative age in human history. Analysing global intellectual property data and tracking global scientific literature publications, TR found that overall levels of innovation had sped on at record pace, with global...

11 May A short guided tour around our corner of the Twitterverse: HECG Highered Trendwatch

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By DAVID MYTON And now for something completely different - a blog about Tweets and Twitter. Over the past 28 days I have published 114 Tweets on @HE_CG. My aim is to reflect the variety of thought, opinion and research relevant to anyone interested in education,...

21 Apr Behind that blockbuster movie may be a historian or classicist: HECG Highered Trendwatch

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By DAVID MYTON A fascinating article this week by Edith Cowan University fashion historian Lydia Edwards on the accuracy or otherwise of costumes in television and film period dramas got me thinking: the movie-television industry is hugely reliant on the work of traditional historians and those...

09 Nov Securing the future of universities by telling it like it is: HECG Highered Trendwatch

Books, Creativity, HECG, Higher Education, Higher education management, Higher Education Marketing, Research, Universities by David Myton 0 Comments

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In my previous post I waxed on the importance - and effectiveness - of good storytelling in higher education. Letting your community and stakeholders know what you are doing and why in creative and compelling ways provides great benefits for universities: not just in the...

04 Nov Once upon a time … storytelling breathes life into highered research: HECG Trendwatch

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Not so long ago I cited the wisdom of writing guru Robert McKee who said that storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world. Well, one university in particular has been letting the world know about its work in a big way...

01 Sep How a 16th century education could prepare students for the future: HECG HIGHERED TRENDWATCH

Creativity, HECG, Higher Education, Shakespeare, Universities by David Myton 0 Comments

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The poet T S Eliot once observed that when it comes to studying and analysing Shakespeare all we can hope for is to be wrong about him in a new way (Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, p2). But perhaps not, because recently we...

11 Aug Why failure is a necessary condition of success for highered: HECG trendwatch

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The light bulb is commonly used as an illustration to accompany articles about innovation and science (see above). It is a universally recognised symbol of discovery – the a-ah! moment when the researcher/inventor finally finds the big breakthrough or cracks a hitherto unsolvable problem. A light...

Creativity

14 Jun In conversation with Lelia Green

12 Sep Creativity key to success in the age of digital upheaval: HECG Highered Trendwatch

19 Jul When humanities majors have the edge over STEM grads: HECG Highered Trendwatch

23 May Finding new models of innovation to reach out in help : HECG Trendwatch

11 May A short guided tour around our corner of the Twitterverse: HECG Highered Trendwatch

21 Apr Behind that blockbuster movie may be a historian or classicist: HECG Highered Trendwatch

09 Nov Securing the future of universities by telling it like it is: HECG Highered Trendwatch

04 Nov Once upon a time … storytelling breathes life into highered research: HECG Trendwatch

01 Sep How a 16th century education could prepare students for the future: HECG HIGHERED TRENDWATCH

11 Aug Why failure is a necessary condition of success for highered: HECG trendwatch

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