Higher Ed Partners UK

Hybrid and blended learning: the flexible future of higher education?

In our digital age, providers are using hard-won lessons to explore new ways of delivering more-flexible, multi-faceted, and relevant learning experiences for students.

This blog examines digital advancements, new routes into learning, hybrid and blended-teaching models, and other ways in which the sector is transforming.

Hybrid and blended learning: the flexible future of higher education? Hybrid and blended learning: the flexible future of higher education?

Optimising the digital higher education experience: delivering outstanding support for online learners

Increased demand, and expectation, for providers to offer online, hybrid and blended-delivery models has required the sector to branch out from more-traditional learning options.

But are students still receiving the same quality learning experiences – and what more can be done to add value and boost engagement?

Optimising the digital higher education experience: delivering outstanding support for online learners Optimising the digital higher education experience: delivering outstanding support for online learners

The same but different: improving fairness of access, participation and outcomes in higher education

Many higher education institutions are falling short of ambitions to provide equality of opportunity, diversity and prosperity, failing students – and society – in the process.

This blog investigates how barriers to education can be removed, and what providers must commit to in order to truly facilitate change.

The same but different: improving fairness of access, participation, and outcomes in higher education The same but different: improving fairness of access, participation, and outcomes in higher education

Diversification: the key to unlocking new higher education revenue streams

Financial constraints, coupled with the ongoing ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, have thrown the need for funding diversification in HE settings into the spotlight.

This blog explores how HE establishments can tackle deficits, maximise international recruitment, embrace hybrid learning and pursue non-traditional revenue sources.

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Prioritising wellbeing in higher education: strategies for improving students’ mental health

Research indicates that university students may be at greater risk of developing mental health issues than is found in the wider population.

This blog examines how providers can support mental health throughout the HE journey, including options for provision and the best ways to promote agency and resilience.

Prioritising wellbeing in higher education: strategies for improving students’ mental health Prioritising wellbeing in higher education: strategies for improving students’ mental health

Well-designed online learning can be highly engaging, motivating, and enjoyable. Historically though, distance learning, both pre-web and in early online courses, suffered from poor retention – students found it difficult to study on their own.

This blog explores how HE institutions can implement effective peer learning in online courses to keep students retained and engaged.

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As participation continues to widen in the UK’s higher education sector with increasing numbers of applications from previously underrepresented sectors, many gender-based anomalies remain.

This blog explores gender inequalities in higher education, and how universities can commit to widening participation at every level.

Breaking the bias: addressing the higher education gender pay gap Breaking the bias: addressing the higher education gender pay gap

Unbundling traditional higher education provision involves an assessment of what is core to the university experience, and what is subsidiary. By unpicking the elements and repackaging them, more accessible and flexible learning opportunities can be created.

This blog explores unbundling considerations for higher education institutions, and what it could mean for learners.

The great unbundling: diminishing or democratising higher education? The great unbundling: diminishing or democratising higher education?

Asynchronous learning offers students the chance to complete courses to a more flexible schedule using a variety of channels, including pre-recorded videos, discussion boards and online forums.

This approach is gathering fast momentum within higher education and online learning, and this blog discusses why asynchronous learning works.

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As the higher education sector looks to the future, this blog explores how institutions can tackle the challenges of moving campus-based degree programmes online.

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Using learnings from the past few years, all universities now have to aim for a high standard of programme delivery that isn’t completely reliant – or even heavily dependent – on traditional campus-based models.

This blog explores 10 ways universities can optimise the student experience in 2022.

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The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the rate of academic institutions delivering their programmes online, but was this move an inevitable evolution of education?

This blog explores how the traditional higher education business model was already vulnerable to disruption, and discusses whether the digital delivery of degrees could be here to stay.

BLOG | Do universities really need to move online? BLOG | Do universities really need to move online?