Like Rocks With the Sun?
Re-imagining the Landscape of HE and Widening Access
Martha Caddell (Edinburgh Napier University)
Ann Pegg (Independent Consultant)
Source: Times Higher Education 2014
The Changing Landscape of HE
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A sector in flux.
Place and space matters.
Metaphor and imagery.
Shaping practice? Boundaries around possible action?
• A Blueprint for Fairness: The Final Report of the Commission
on Widening Access
Metaphor and Motif in HE Policy
• Architecture to support change
• Order to ‘wild’ landscape
• Create paths, recognise presence & needs of (some) people
• Navigation
• Protecting the HE Environment
Blueprints and Bridges
The Landscape as viewed by the Commission on Widening Access
Exploring (some) landscapes, mapping (some) paths
Landscape features – seen and unseen
Working within HE landscape(s)
Implications for action
• Think beyond blueprints from past activity
• Flexibility of pathways to recognise changing terrain.
• ‘Hidden’ features matter.
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Part-time learners.
Context, community, interaction.
• Institutional and sector challenges.
Photo sources
Slide 2:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/salmond-unveils-free-tuitionmonument-at-heriot-watt/2017046.article
Slide 5:
http://www.forth-bridges.co.uk/queensferry-crossing.html
Slide 6:
http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~wvdaalst/old/etc/desire-lines-orcowpaths_files/image002.jpg
Slide 7:
Google Maps