{"id":7144,"date":"2017-12-22T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2017-12-22T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T07:28:17","slug":"farewell-to-the-hea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/12\/22\/farewell-to-the-hea\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the HEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Academy (HEA) has agreed to merge with the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE). \u00a0This\u00a0follows the recommendations of the Bell review that there be one agency for learning and teaching, equality and diversity, and leadership and governance in higher education. \u00a0Professor Rama Thirunamachandran, Chair of the HEA Board and Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Canterbury Christ Church University, said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe [HEA] Board fully supports the merger of the three agencies which we believe will be stronger together, offering a single channel to focus on teaching and learning, equality and diversity, and leadership and governance. We are pleased that HEA Fellowships and the HEA post-nominals will be retained, given that they are widely known both in the UK and internationally.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That will be a relief to many, especially post-nominals. \u00a0The new agency has no name at present, so here's festive competition (to fit with the HEA ethos, there are no prizes): \u00a0<em><strong>Name the new agency.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0Answers on a postcard to\u00a0Alison Johns, CEO of the LFHE.<\/p>\n<p>My contributions, always seeking after a good acronym, are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>S<\/strong>tudent <strong>E<\/strong>quality and <strong>L<\/strong>eadership <strong>F<\/strong>oundation for <strong>H<\/strong>igher <strong>E<\/strong>ducation <strong>A<\/strong>cademic <strong>L<\/strong>ife\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em><strong>SELF HEAL<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>tudent <strong>E<\/strong>quality and <strong>L<\/strong>eadership <strong>F<\/strong>oundation for <strong>H<\/strong>igher <strong>A<\/strong>cademic <strong>R<\/strong>esearch and <strong>M<\/strong>anagement \u2013\u00a0<em><strong>SELF HARM<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On balance, I think the second is more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Academy (HEA) has agreed to merge with the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE). \u00a0This\u00a0follows the recommendations of the Bell review that there be one agency for learning and teaching, equality...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}