Mark Peace

@Mikel_Jollett @registrarism

In depth historical analysis of how we got here:

@MaryCurnockCook here's that challenger uni idea I've been teasing you with :)

What if we built a university where our first principle is to own as little as possible? I had a ball of a time chatting with the indomitable Paul Greatrix about imaginings for a university that made the most of a bold and fully implemented Lifelong Learning Entitlement.

🎓🚀 #NewBeginnings #HigherEducation #ExperientialLearning #KingsCollegeLondon #EducationalInnovation

Manchester Met has made me a better educator and a more savvy and intuitive leader. I hope I reciprocate by leaving a semblance of sustainable positive influence in its culture and practice. I look forward to forging new impacts at King’s working

and to a community of inspirational and supportive colleagues who have lifted me beyond council-estate imposter syndrome to professorship.

to a series of senior leaders who have have recognised the value of my (sometimes less-than-orthodox) ways of delivering educational change;

It means leaving @ManMetUni after 16 years full of joy and challenge and invention (and the odd bit of frustration obvs). I will be forever grateful to an institution that is bold enough and committed enough to its student to embrace radical new ideas;

Though this, I’ll contribute to the King’s mission enable individualised pathways that allow every student to form and reach their ambitions and to contribute in meaningful ways to society.

It is an amazing opportunity, to put my ongoing educational commitments into a new and vibrant context (and what a context!). But also one tinged with sadness.

I’ll work to co-construct a distinctive education proposition for the college, one centred on lifting the agency of students, and their access to and benefit from the full richness of university opportunities.

📣 Personal News Klaxon 📣 I am on the move!… … to @KingsCollegeLon as Academic Director for the King’s Experience.

Here's a sneak preview of my favourite slide so far. Intrigued? You'll find out on Tuesday or, if you can't make it, by signing up for the iesbl.substack.com newsletter for a blog post riffing on this theme in the next few weeks.

As part of a panel with @EveAlcock and @jim_dickinson on the consequences of time/poverty, I'll be exploring the 'quiet crisis' of attendance, and the ways in which a radical relaxing might speak to it, whilst placing student agency at the very heart of our concerns.

I am SUPER EXCITED to be speaking at @Wonkhe 's Secret Life of Students this week.

Very much looking forward to a caffeine perked conversation about place in pedagogy tomorrow as part of the @Wonkhe and @Adobe Education Espresso event with @debbie_mcvitty, Mark Andrews, @JuliettePhD and David Overend. wonkhe.com/education-espr…

It was a tough [and thankfully not annual] process - but it really exposed the student-centred and progressive 'bones' of Man Met. I'm so glad the TEF panellists were as impressed by this as I.

Whoop. I spent last Christmas writing this - so its gratifying to see it come home for this one 😀. I was a privilege to be custodian to our story, underpinned by so many contributions from our inspirational educators.

With contributions from @DavidRobOwen , @Fiona_Walshh, @AfsanaSalik, @ecudielle, @andypitchford68, Paul Manners of @NCCPE , @MXypaki and @soniakumar100

This week, I've been chatting with amazing people about how we make good of some of the ideals that surround service learning and civic education.