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Stand Alone: 2015 – 2024: 10 years of changing higher education for estranged students

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Stand Alone has announced its closure and its higher education work is coming to an end. Quickly Stand Alone understood that ‘estrangement’ was unrecognised as a barrier to higher education. For Stand Alone the first step was to engage higher education institutions. And they called on Stand Alone to help.

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Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1960s

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Adam Matthews tracks higher education expansion through the Westminster parties' manifestos of the swinging sixties The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1960s appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1990s

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Debbie McVitty hunts for solutions in the manifestos of Major, Kinnock, Blair, and Ashdown The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1990s appeared first on Wonkhe. By the end of the eighties the architecture of HE as we know it was in place – but not the funding.

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Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1940s and 50s

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Debbie McVitty finds the seeds of an emerging consensus around the value of higher education expansion in party manifestos of the post-war years The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1940s and 50s appeared first on Wonkhe.

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How higher education has showed up in General Election manifestos since 1945

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Kicking off a new series on what we can learn from how General Election manifestos have engaged with higher education, Adam Matthews reflects on the changing political fortunes of universities in the past 80 years The post How higher education has showed up in General Election manifestos since 1945 appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1980s

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Adam Matthews looks beyond the iconography and politics of the Thatcher era to find a surprising degree of political consensus over higher education The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1980s appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1970s

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But Debbie McVitty also finds in General Election manifestos of the time the arrival of students as a political force to be reckoned with The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1970s appeared first on Wonkhe. The seventies saw galloping inflation, strikes, and the polarisation of politics.