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Listen "Is the 'student as a consumer' model good for Higher Education?: Featuring Professor Patrick McGhee, AVC (Quality and Research), University of Bolton. "
Episode Synopsis
In this episode, we focus on the intricate discourse surrounding the "student as a consumer" model within higher education, exploring its impact on educational quality, learning experience of students and institutional accountability in the context of an evolving higher education landscape with guest speaker, Professor Patrick McGhee, Assistant Vice Chancellor at the University of Bolton with responsibility for quality and for research.
Patrick is a UK National Teaching Fellow, CBT therapist and chartered psychologist. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was as a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and The Academic Quality Handbook (Routledge) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He has been an occasional columnist for The Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher Education.
Patrick is a UK National Teaching Fellow, CBT therapist and chartered psychologist. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was as a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and The Academic Quality Handbook (Routledge) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He has been an occasional columnist for The Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher Education.
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