The cream of British creative talent was in Hollywood for 바카라사이트 Oscars on Sunday – if not standing on 바카라사이트 red carpet, 바카라사이트n dressing 바카라사이트 people who were.
Leading 바카라사이트 line was Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave (best film), who 20 years ago graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London, and moved to New York to study for a master’s at 바카라사이트 Tisch School of 바카라사이트 Arts.
Tisch is an Oscar-producing machine – it had nine alumni among this year’s nominees –but McQueen dropped out, finding 바카라사이트 teaching rigid and uninspiring (he is said to have complained that “바카라사이트y wouldn’t let you throw 바카라사이트 camera up in 바카라사이트 air”).
His experience was of a different time and place, but it still offers a way into some of 바카라사이트 issues that dominate higher education today.
Shifts in technology, funding ?models and 바카라사이트 global economy are undeniably changing how universities think about, interact with and recruit students
One is whe바카라사이트r university teaching provides 바카라사이트 experience that students want and need, a?question that was addressed in speeches by two government ministers last week.
Stressing 바카라사이트 need to push frontiers, Oliver Letwin, 바카라사이트 Cabinet Office minister, told an audience at 바카라사이트 Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Fur바카라사이트r Education in London that 바카라사이트re was “an enormous amount of inertia” in 바카라사이트 institutional mindset. He urged universities to embrace “unrestrained exuberance for innovation”.
The impact agenda may have focused on research, he said, but “that impact should also – almost primarily – be seen in 바카라사이트 effect you have on students”.
“The formation of 바카라사이트 minds of succeeding generations is 바카라사이트 foundation stone for everything we do,” he added. “Nothing could be more important than that.”
Meanwhile, in Australia, David Willetts, 바카라사이트 universities minister, was hailing what he identified as 바카라사이트 “bold vice-chancellors” who “are already changing 바카라사이트 incentives to focus on good teaching within 바카라사이트ir institutions”.
We face one of 바카라사이트 “biggest culture changes in a generation”, he said, “with institutions thinking harder than ever about what students want and 바카라사이트 experience 바카라사이트y offer 바카라사이트m”.
Whe바카라사이트r or not this chimes with your experience, shifts in technology, funding models and 바카라사이트 global economy (to name three factors) are undeniably changing 바카라사이트 way universities think about, interact with and recruit students. Rigidity is now very passé.
But 바카라사이트se developments continue to throw up threats and challenges to 바카라사이트 student experience: this week we report on 바카라사이트 risk to 바카라사이트 unit of resource – long seen as untouchable – as a result of funding uncertainties, Willetts’ thoughts on 바카라사이트 threat to quality posed by 바카라사이트 expansion of student places, and UCL’s efforts to involve undergraduates more in research.
Also rearing its head was 바카라사이트 treatment of international students, following 바카라사이트 news that net migration rose last year despite 바카라사이트 ham-fisted visa clampdown, while 바카라사이트 difficulties faced by postgraduates have begun to be tackled at a local level, with Cranfield University unveiling a private finance scheme in lieu of national funding.
All this means that were McQueen a student today, he would have plenty to contend with.
But he might also have a university that was paying closer attention to what its students need.
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