Few concepts are invoked more confidently in contemporary universities than ‘the Student Voice’. Yet the term – especially when framed in the language of ‘championing the Student Voice’ – can obscure an important distinction. Students are authoritative witnesses to their experience of teaching, assessment, services, and university life. They are not, simply by being students, …
Month: December 2025
One of my favourite poems by Seamus Heaney is this one from his 1991 collection Seeing Things. This poem is the eighth in the first section (Lightenings) of Part 2 (Squarings). viii The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the …

