Challenging university leaders
Professor Tony Kelly, head of the University of Southampton Education School, has urged universities to respect both their star researchers and their gifted teachers in an online article for The Guardian’s Learning and Teaching hub.
As senior staff across the higher education sector finalise their decisions on which research projects should be submitted for this autumn’s crucial Research Excellence Framework (REF), Professor Kelly counsels Vice-Chancellors to recognise the importance of good teaching in modern universities and allow both lecturers and researchers to achieve their potential by removing onerous administrative burdens.
He warns that rankings in the National Student Survey will be soon seen as second only to REF outcomes. Demographic change over the next few years means admissions tutors will be recruiting from a dwindling pool of bright young people who will have high expectations of their experience at university.
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Professor Anthony Kelly MA, HDE, MSc, MPhil, PhD, FInstP, FIMA, FAcSS
Professor Anthony Kelly is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton. He specialises in the theory of Educational Effectiveness and Improvement; in particular, as it relates to educational leadership, governance and policy analysis, in adapting Capability and Game Theoretic concepts to schooling, and in developing innovative quantitative approaches and mathematical modelling techniques for use in educational research.
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