Watch UCL’s ‘Disagreeing Well’ internal debate on June 28th 2023 at the Bloomsbury Theatre. The first event on Disagreeing Well with a simple purpose: to introduce staff and students to what is involved in successfully disagreeing and to highlight why it is such an important skill for all of us at UCL to learn.

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10/26/2023

Keynote Panel Discussion with: ·         Sue Attewell, JISC ·         Chris Blunt, London School of Economics and Political Science   ·         Caitlin Bentley, King’s College London ·         Thomas Lancaster, Imperial College London Moderated by Leo Havemann, UCL

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7/11/2023

Prof Gill Wyness discussed the role of school type in academic match, comparing mismatch across independent schools, state schools and FE colleges. She reviewed the implications on mismatch in higher education for students from both state and private schools.

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6/12/2023

In this short conversation with UCL Arena, Dr Danielle D'Lima from the Centre for Behaviour Change discusses how higher education teachers might use behaviour change theory to reflect on their teaching practice.

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2/15/2023

Andrea will assess how the enlargement of university access enacted in the UK following the 1963 Robbins Report provides an ideal case study to draw lessons for the future. He will explain that this expansion is associated with a decline of the average intelligence of graduates and of the college wage premium across cohorts, and that it mainly benefited relatively less intelligent students from advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Structural estimates and counterfactual simulations suggest that the implemented policy was unfit to reach high-ability individuals as Robbins had instead advocated, and that a meritocratic selection of university students would have attained that goal and would have also been more egalitarian. This seminar is jointly hosted with CReAM: Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration.

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12/16/2022

Amidst a cacophony of competing narratives about what's best for students, educators, employers, research and a lot more beside, we find ourselves (yet again) at a critical point in higher education as we seek to work out what we are for, who we serve and what the future holds. Central to these debates is what teaching and learning will look like in the near and medium term. What will we (at UCL and higher education more widely) be doing in 5, 10 or 20 years? Will it be pretty much the same as we were doing in lecture halls, labs and seminar rooms pre-pandemic or is the genie out of the bottle? Will the 'return to normal' actually happen? Are utopian/ dystopian (delete as applicable) visions of virtual learning in extended realities pie in the sky? Has too much changed? What are the threats? Are they existential? Erratum: In this video I said undergrad failure was increasing in the UK- it's not in fact, though is concerning still and Covid has made the picture very unclear.

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6/16/2022

Oliver, M. (2020) Viral knowledge: disciplinarity during a pandemic. Keynote presentation, Kaleidoscope 2020, University of Cambridge, UK. 28th May, 2020.

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1/5/2021

A short introduction to the BA Education Studies module 'Welcome to the Worlds of UCL: Critical Histories of Education, Nation and Empire', and to the origin of UCL, filmed on campus in October 2020.

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1/4/2021