Sociologist | Higher education | Research/teaching nexus | HE transitions and widening access | International comparative education | Associate Professor at UONottingham | Sheffield-based | Views my own https://www.rhordosy.com/
Rita Hordósy
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The 250th edition celebration of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training offers a timely return to one of the most debated frameworks in VET research: the capabilities approach.
Find out more here: jvet.co.uk
#JVET250 #VETResearch #CapabilitiesApproach #FurtherEducation #SocialJustice
Oof. Missed this the other day. By our measure Nottingham is the UK big city most reliant on the universities for local 'knowledge' jobs.
One in four of all of these high skilled jobs in the city are academic and non academic staff in higher education. Could be a big blow
Easily the most heartwarming moment at Péter Magyar’s inauguration today: the Romani boys ensemble from the small town of Sükösd performing live in the Hungarian Parliament.
Just as he promised them during his campaign stop last November. All the feels.
🙏🏼💝🕊️
📹 Tamás Jónás
Carolina: ‘I think the most common route of getting anything is to have a friend in the company.’
Yaseen: ‘So much of it is about who you know.’
Larissa: ‘I don’t know anybody who has got a job lined up, except for your classic nepo babies.’
So we are back to this
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Issues at British universities are often met with the same answer - restructure & centralise. This push towards 'efficiency' has led universities into further crisis. How do we fight back? More from this contribution to our Dispatches series https://isrf.org/blog/dispatch-from-a-middle-manager
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Rita Hordósy
"The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a nominally private institution offering ‘supplementary education’ to students in order to create the next Fidesz elite, received more government funding than the rest of the higher education sector combined"
📝 Exciting new paper from my fellowship at @uonsoe.bsky.social
"The research/teaching nexus in sociology: Perspectives from Norway, Hungary and England"
Jointly with Betul, Asad and Tom we wrote about the transformative experiences that help to shape students’ possible sociological futures
