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What happened the last time Labour wrestled with equality versus excellence in education?

HEPI

It’s taken me almost 20 years but, over the summer, I eventually got around to reading a book I’ve been wanting to read on higher education policy since I started working in the area over 15 years ago: University to Uni – The Politics of Higher Education since 1944 by Robert Stevens.

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More financial assistance sought in Indian budget

The PIE News

India has increased its education budget for this year to Rs1.2 However, international education stakeholders say outbound Indian students should have been addressed. “These aspects significantly impact the affordability of international education for Indian students and their families. trillion (£11.4

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India issues draft rules for foreign university branches

Inside Higher Ed

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). “Many foreign universities are operating in countries like China, U.A.E.,

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“Huge growth opportunity” for Bangladesh

The PIE News

The appetite for international education is “huge” among Bangladeshi youth, a representative from the British High Commission in Dhaka said last week, following a report earlier this month that urged UK universities to diversify their student recruitment beyond India and China. .

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

SRHE

The latter source grew steadily more important and in 1919 the Treasury established a University Grants Committee (UGC) to rationalise government grants which in the 1920s and 1930s rose to around 30% of individual universities’ expenditure. The system is too large, too bureaucratic and too monocentric.

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Higher education policymaking in the UK before HEPI

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. By the start of the twenty-first century though, that had changed and there was a role for a specialist higher education think tank.

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Review of The Robbins Report at 60 (HEPI Policy Note 49) by Mike Shattock

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Michael Shattock, Visiting Professor at the UCL Institute of Education. Where polytechnics took over teacher training colleges, which were mostly strongly residential, they inherited what were often their first residential provision.) It still has relevance today.

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