How to be happy and successful: Surprisingly useful advice from a 19th Century Catholic priest

  • Lindsay Jordan: Course Leader PgCert Academic Practice, Teaching & Learning Exchange

Abstract

In 2018 the DfE announced that universities would be rewarded for delivering 'improved wellbeing outcomes'. They did not specify how this might be achieved. With a playful spirit, but in all seriousness, this talk presents Newman's philosophy of education (1852) as seven lessons for the overworked, anxious students of today.