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Call for papers: Higher Education on Small Islands

A couple of weeks ago I was part of an SRHE webinar exploring Higher Education on Small Islands. Following this … More

book, call for papers, higher education

International vs Internal Student Mobilities

One of my colleagues at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Dr Philomena De Lima is doing some work … More

Charlie Ball, Global graduates, Globalisation, higher education, internal, Internal and international migration, international, internationalisation, migration, Mobility, Philomena De Lima, Student Mobility, Sussex Centre for Migration Research

Migration, education and employment: socio-cultural factors in shaping individual decisions in Orkney and Shetland

So, my latest paper has just been published in the Island Studies Journal. The paper is titled: Migration, education and … More

Bourdieu, confidence, Entry to Higher Education, familiarity, graduate destinations, Habitus, higher education, island, Island Studies Journal, Orkney, proximity, shetland, sociocultural

Social Class, Rurality and Access to Higher Education

I’ve recently been reading about research into working class students and their experience of Higher Education. Wolfgang Lehmann has written … More

Bude, Cornwall, higher education, Lehmann, rural, Rurality, Social Class, widening access, working class

Stats busting: the Higher Education experiences of students from Orkney and Shetland

So, as part of my PhD I have been looking at the destinations of higher education graduates who were originally … More

Aberdeen, DLHE, GMT, Graduate, Graduate Market Trends, higher education, Orkney, shetland

Cornwall to Orkney: was it destiny….?!

Tidying up, I just found an essay I wrote when I was 16 which was published in the Western Morning … More

Business development, Cornwall, Devon, higher education, internet, migration, Orkney, Regional Development, rural, Rurality, Skills based industries, Tourism, University of the Highlands and Islands, Western Morning News

Participation in Higher Education by region (in England): a picture of rural disadvantage

Well, this is interesting, today I came across a report from HEFCE: ‘trends in young participation in higher education’ which … More

Access, HEFCE, higher education, London, Rurality

Orkney school leavers (2010-11) – the impact of gender

The dive into statistics continues…. Today I have been looking at the School Leaver Destinations for Orkney, compiled by Skills … More

Corbett, gender, higher education, learning to leave, men, migration, Orkney, School Leavers, SDS, Skills Development Scotland, SLDR, women

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