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Generation Hope to Reach 3 Million Parenting Students by 2029

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s why she and the board of directors at Generation Hope have decided on an ambitious five-year plan that will expand its work and impact over three million parenting students by 2029.

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Placing research integrity at the heart of REF

HEPI

One such area is research assessment, for which plans for the Research Excellence Framework 2029 (REF 2029) remain a hot topic across higher education. Like many of us in the research sector, at the UK Committee on Research Integrity, we’ve been thinking hard about plans for REF 2029.

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Student Accommodation after 2024 and the Need for Strategic Realignment

HEPI

This is a little lower than the peak admissions achieved in the assessed grades year of 2021 at 138,610 and the 2024 intake was much higher than the pre-Covid 2019 acceptance rate at 115,390. These well-intentioned proposals, whilst frequently referencing affordability, achieve exactly the opposite by putting rents up.

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Open Access: A Benefit Not a Burden That is Worth the Cost

HEPI

Their question also downplays the significant public good that the mandate has achieved, including the transformative effect of the REF OA requirements implemented in 2016, which produced a huge boost in the accessibility of UK research. Indeed, open access has many benefits for many parties.

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Beechside views: meeting targets

The PIE News

With just days to go before the holiday season is upon us, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has set out six pledges that he hopes to achieve by 2029. While reducing net migration may be a top priority for the new Labour government, so too is achieving growth.

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Perceptions of research culture

HEPI

And in the 2023-24 academic year, there has been much ado and additional mixed responses around the new People, Culture, and Environment (PCE) component that will be introduced in REF 2029. Wellcome concluded that ‘achieving a successful research culture will require collective responsibility and change at all levels.

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62% ‘prioritising’ attracting int’l students – report

The PIE News

One in three (35%) say that they are the lowest priority challenge areas now, but 65% say they will become increasingly difficult by 2029. Changes in politics, tech and regulation are currently considered low priority area, but HE leaders say they will become much greater challenges in the next five years, new research has suggested.

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