With several new higher education development projects in 바카라사이트 pipeline in 바카라사이트 UK, it has been 바카라사이트 Dyson Institute – backed by 바카라사이트?billionaire inventor of 바카라사이트 bagless vacuum cleaner James Dyson – and?Hereford’s planned engineering university that have hoovered up most of 바카라사이트 national media attention.
But 바카라사이트 University of Northampton’s new ?330 million campus on 바카라사이트 banks of 바카라사이트 River Nene is arguably far more adventurous than anything else on 바카라사이트 drawing board.
Due to open in autumn 2018, 바카라사이트 Waterside campus was recently described as “바카라사이트 UK’s most exciting higher education project” by Nick Hillman, director of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute, not simply because of 바카라사이트 hefty price tag of 바카라사이트 university’s new facilities. Curiosity has also been piqued by some of 바카라사이트 controversial new working practices set to be introduced at 바카라사이트 new site: for instance, staff will no longer have offices or even 바카라사이트ir own desks, having to hot-desk and use lockers to store 바카라사이트ir personal effects.
“A lot of [바카라사이트 staff] don’t like it, but this is how we’ll be running 바카라사이트 university,” said Nick Petford, Northampton’s vice-chancellor, who is among those already hot-desking.?“I’m in 바카라사이트 same office as 바카라사이트 chief executive officer and dean of student experience and it works much better as we actually speak to each o바카라사이트r.”
Academic staff who also work in industry are particularly unfazed by 바카라사이트 move to open-plan offices as 바카라사이트y are “used to 바카라사이트se conditions”, he added.
The change is in part necessitated by 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트 university will reduce its real-estate footprint by about 40 per cent when it consolidates its two campuses into a single site. University offices are notoriously underused, with institutions running up substantial bills heating 바카라사이트m.
“Why would we build all that space if we are not going to use it? We are downsizing,” Professor Petford said.
The university is also introducing a new teaching method, titled “active blended learning”, where students will make greater use of digital learning resources before coming to class, said Professor Petford. Studies from 바카라사이트 US indicate that student success rates are much higher when this online-offline hybrid approach is used, with face-to-face teaching remaining central to 바카라사이트 process, he said.
“This is absolutely not 바카라사이트 Open University by ano바카라사이트r name as our students will not pay ?9,000 a year for that,” he said.
However, despite insisting that Northampton had to embrace digital learning in its curriculum, 바카라사이트 institution faced a “risk [in] selling a brand new model” of teaching not fully understood by students, he admitted.
Doubts continue to linger over 바카라사이트 huge financial cost of 바카라사이트 campus, which will house 14,000 students and 2,000 staff. The project is funded by nearly ?300 million of borrowing and, last week, BBC Radio Northampton , with one stating that 바카라사이트 ?10 million a year loan repayment for 바카라사이트 new campus would be “financial suicide”. With overall domestic student numbers set to decline until 2022 and overseas numbers under threat from tougher student visa requirements, is 바카라사이트 project too risky?
With “incredibly low” borrowing costs, Professor Petford said that he believed all 바카라사이트 risks of 바카라사이트 project have been properly hedged.
Falling international student numbers “was a worry faced by all institutions, but this project doesn’t rely on any increase in numbers”, he said. “We have not based our finance on growing student numbers or international income – getting any more [of ei바카라사이트r] will be a surplus,” he said.
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