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Moving Right Along to Improve Mood and Memory

The Scholarly Teacher

Mark Tarnopolsky, a genetic metabolic neurologist at McMaster University, said that “if there were a drug that could do for human health everything that exercise can, it would likely be the most valuable pharmaceutical ever developed” (Oaklander, 2016, para. Impact of Exercising on the Brain. Erickson et al. Erickson, K. Gildengers, A.

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The importance of academic mental health

SRHE

The mental health of students has long been a topic of interest with decades of primary research, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, alongside cross cultural comparisons, highlighting the poor mental health of University Students in comparison to the general public ( Brown, 2018 ; Campbell et al, 2022 ; Macaskill, 2013 ).

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Research co-creation may be the key to impact

SRHE

Previous research by the Centre discovered that pressures within schools dampen students’ expressed curiosity in questions about the nature of reality and human personhood and limit the development of their epistemic insight into how science, religion and the wider humanities relate.

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Research ethics committees should rethink risk

SRHE

A further concern for many educational researchers is that approaches to ethical review, initially developed in relation to biomedical sciences, have largely been positivist. We have each grappled with the complexities, vagaries, frustrations and ‘emotional vicissitudes’ ( Monaghan, O’Dwyer and Gabe, 2013 ) of gaining ethical approval.

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Irregulation: is the Office for Students fit for purpose?

SRHE

How has this framework developed over time, and what impacts has this had on higher education providers? Michael Salmon, News Editor for Wonkhe, said on 3 March 2023: “This is much of what sector groups have been calling for, and reflects concerns raised in OfS’ recently published review of its engagement with universities.”

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” Their contracts have raised a number of ethical and policy flags.

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New evidence on the challenges and consequences of precarious work for university students

SRHE

Headline news has reignited debates about how financial hardship and challenging labour market conditions are squeezing students’ study-life balance, and alarmingly raised claims that part-time jobs may disproportionally disadvantage less privileged students ( BBC News 2023 ). His monograph Media, Conflict and Diaspora (I.B.