Short blog on my initial thoughts on the recent communiqué on increase in visa fees and IHS to fund pay rise. Blog also includes snippets sent to PIE news to be published later today. Strikes have resounded across the UK for more than a year now: railway workers, teachers, doctors, postal workers; Civil Servants have… Continue reading Are international students the pawn to end to Civil Servants’ strikes in the UK?
Category: Higher Education
Protected: Bullying in the sector of learning technologies
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Raymond Origbo – Climate Activist from Nigeria
Reviewed and edited by Dr Teeroumanee Nadan I am Raymond Origbo, a Forestry and Wood Technology student at the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. I am a nature and a climate change activist, environmental educator/ scientist, researcher, and my interest stemmed from my desire to conserve nature, help restore the landscape, create a sustainable… Continue reading Raymond Origbo – Climate Activist from Nigeria
Protected: Tier 4 visas – improving the support for visa nationals students – ft. Dr Olayinka Lewis
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My name means sacred bells and music
Today is World Day of Music and also Int'l Day of Yoga. I am sure that it will benefit me to harness some internal peace and there is no better way than to pen down a racist trigger that has been setting me off the last few weeks - my identity - which has got… Continue reading My name means sacred bells and music
Protected: ARLT SIG presentation 8th June 2022
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Safe spaces for EDI – ft. John Brindle
This blog and the idea of doing a video as part of the Celebrating Small Steps in HE Video Series emanated from a comment from someone that safe spaces were not a priority for meetings on antiracism. Shocking right? Now, this is not a statement that I would expect from an antiracist. I had to… Continue reading Safe spaces for EDI – ft. John Brindle
Protected: Zero participation – am I an EDI enthusiast now?
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An intersectional approach to learning technology – answering key questions with openness
I am writing this blog as a personal contribution to an upcoming webinar session on An intersectional approach to learning technology in a few days' time (event details and registration available at https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=684). This is a thinking loud blog with personal thoughts based on disruptive antiracism measures. I am addressing here a few questions that… Continue reading An intersectional approach to learning technology – answering key questions with openness
Protected: Allies & beyond
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Changing mindsets to reduce discrimination at work – ft. Dominic Pates
Update: video with full captioning finally added. Today is the World Day for Safety & Health at Work, the day where there will be talks about physical and psychological safety and health, most likely a session that will take place during lunchtime or at five pm, or let's make that 6pm. And the remaining days,… Continue reading Changing mindsets to reduce discrimination at work – ft. Dominic Pates
How I am using my Open Badges – contributing to work by Deb Baff & Teresa MacKinnon
This is my contribution to the "Open Badges Experiences" - a piece of work by Deb Baff and Teresa MacKinnon https://padlet.com/Debbaff/myopenbadges https://padlet.com/Debbaff/myopenbadges I have really got mixed feelings about Open Badges. My first experence of Open Badges has been at UCEM, where they were issued to staff for the annual conference and later I used… Continue reading How I am using my Open Badges – contributing to work by Deb Baff & Teresa MacKinnon
Protected: Allyship – is it too big of a word?
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Celebrating small steps in HE video series
[This will be a dynamic page, where I will keep adding the videos and blog related to the video series] The Celebrating small steps in HE video series is emanated from several attempts to tackle discrimination in HE, particularly racism, but then I just thought well why not put together my passion for working towards… Continue reading Celebrating small steps in HE video series
Protected: Trauma-informed approaches for supporting students and staff – an introduction
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Impact Coaching & Mentoring (ICM) for Leaders 