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The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back | Polly Toynbee

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Keir Starmer should revitalise Sure Start, focus on children’s happiness – and give a crucial boost to further education Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its manifesto Children became unhappier in the past decade, according to the annual Good Childhood report. Nothing else. Continue reading.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

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The arrival of the ‘alternative provider’ In 1997 the Dearing Report saw diversity in British higher education institutions as an advantage ‘especially in providing for student choice; in programme and pedagogic innovation’ and ‘in the ability of the sector as a whole to meet the wide range of expectations now relevant to higher education’.

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Radical proposals in leader’s conference speech

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by Rob Cuthbert The leader’s speech to Conference was expected to include far-reaching proposals for higher and further education. At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. But now we need to change course.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

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Her article explores the evolving value of degrees in English higher education, focusing on the competence of degree-granting institutions and the implications of recent changes in degree-awarding powers. The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

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HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. per cent of all employed graduates who lived in the UK before enrolling in higher education held technical jobs. . The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. Women represent 52.3

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Flexible Learning Pathways – a new HE or something else?

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This blog was kindly authored by John Brennan, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at the Open University and Visiting Professor at the University of Bath. Higher education is changing. And what do they get from their flexible higher education? And so is the student experience.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

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by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The Royal Society adopts the same wording. Nevertheless, agreed definition seems elusive.