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Higher Education Research Group

Higher Education Research Group

Covering all aspects of Higher Education, this blog features contributions from members of the Higher Education Research Group

  1. Higher Education Research Group
  2. 2025

Year: 2025

What is Success for a PhD: Completion or Employment?

  By Assel Shakuliyeva and Andrew G. Drybrough, Nazarbayev University. The Illusion of Academic Prestige and the Reality of Career Insecurity Academia often projects an image of prestige and intellectual fulfillment, yet many academics privately struggle with structural precarity, including job insecurity, excessive workloads, and career uncertainty (Galimberti, 2023). The increasing reliance on fixed-term contracts […]

19th May 2025 1

What’s gone wrong with universities? – A Provocation, by Gale Macleod

There can be little doubt that the Higher Education sector in the UK is in crisis. Here I argue that at least some of the responsibility for this lies with changing understandings of the purpose of a university education. In turn I see this as driven by two separate phenomena. First is the massification of […]

3rd February 2025 0

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