SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. The polytechnics were designated in the 1960s as new institutions formed from existing technical and other colleges within the English further education system, and with one in Wales.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The “blueprint for change” published by Universities UK (UUK), which represents vice-chancellors, wants the 70% target to be supported by grants paid to disadvantaged students and a new “tertiary education opportunity fund” for areas with low rates of university and college enrolments. Continue reading.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The debate has been given renewed impetus with the publication of a heavyweight report Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for intervention (Stansbury et al , 2023) published by Harvard University and Kings College, London. If we want to provide a mechanism for ‘levelling up’ this is an ideal model.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Baroness Smith was keen on the idea of partnerships stating: ‘Better progression from further education to higher education would make a big difference. There should be more flexibility to access and delivery. There can’t just be one route.’ The LLE is still in!

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HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Formed between 1969 and 1973, England’s polytechnics offered higher education courses in vocational areas. Created through mergers of colleges of technology, art, commerce and other specialist institutions, they offered full-time, sandwich and part-time courses. In 1979, funds for advanced further education were capped.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. The results come from a study by the Lumina Foundation called “ The State of Higher Education: Breaking down the barriers to student enrollment and retention ” in partnership with Gallup. They can lead to further education.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The event was introduced by the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Education, Margaret Greenwood MP, who said that a gender pay gap and class ceiling in many sectors for disadvantaged women had been exacerbated by Covid, its aftermath and cost-of-living crisis – and this event was timely.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Until recently Liz was Director of Policy for both the University of Lincoln and the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership. G]overnment, states, local communities, schools, colleges, companies, families, and personal and professional networks all help form the infrastructure of opportunity.

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HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

Ireland trailed most of Europe by ten to fifteen years in massifying its higher education system, and as Ellen notes in our talk, the country’s universities only really gained a research mission at the turn of the millennium. But falling meant the higher education sector could learn from other countries’ success and mistakes.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The speaker of these words was the then Minister for Higher and Further Education, Michelle Donelan and the sentiment underpins many of the current mechanisms used for assessing quality in English HE. This change might affect English HE in the same way as it did when introduced to the further education (FE) sector.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

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.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2024

1] Similar desiderata are explored in a recent Report of the Higher Education Policy Institute on the future of the Oxford to Cambridge Arc in the context of the regional working together of the other local universities. The Warwick Manufacturing Group in the 1990s and the Birmingham Innovation Quarter are mentioned as examples.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

She saw benefits in providers ‘sharing support services with other universities and colleges’. Those made separately for their Colleges. billion and its colleges taken together have endowments of £5.06 Cambridge’s richest College, Trinity, declares endowments of £2.19 She undertook to publish proposals for ‘major reform’.

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HEPI

JULY 3, 2024

As an example, Westminster politicians demanding more two-year degrees , perhaps in lower cost further education colleges, could do well to look at the sharp decline of two-year degrees in US community colleges.

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