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New funding models explored as UK HEIs “running out of road”

The PIE News

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. The UK is known for its world class higher education system and this needs to be protected.”

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Rebelling together against the myth of the lone creative genius: how arts-based pedagogies enhanced community learning

SRHE

Educators across schools and departments in HEIs are attempting to resist the current educational practice which promotes students as consumers and centres our students as active producers in their own learning. What if we as educators fail at a task and our students see?

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

As noted in many of these documents, the indirect impacts of human mobility to the UK, and EU research support, are plentiful too. In a process that began in 2010 (see my Unsettling the University-Territory Relationship via Applied Sciences NYC ) a long-term experiment in reconfiguring the university-territory relationship was launched.

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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

Lucie Wheeler is a Research Assistant in education. They are both based in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She blogs here.

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In praise of Dr Tony Bruce

HEPI

Viv Stern (Chief Executive of Universities UK) Tony Bruce was Policy Director of what was then the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals (CVCP) from April 1993 to 2010, by which time it had merged with the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics (CDP) and become Universities UK (UUK). We are honoured to have known him.

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Preparing for Government again: how the higher education sector needs to prepare for the next Labour administration

HEPI

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021. We all remember how that went.

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The blurred lines of higher education in South Korea: when colleges look like universities

SRHE

Research at especially elite universities is both applied and humanities-focused, while this is not true in the case of colleges and lower-tier universities. Further research is needed to assess whether isomorphism in higher education lends to competitive market advantages beyond Korea.