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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Higher Education Policy Achievement Provost 76

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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Higher Education Education Policy Educational Policy 52

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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Educational Systems Education Recruitment Higher Education 61

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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University Policy Inclusivity Leadership 67

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Half are nonwhite, and most (60 percent) are the first in their families to attend college. That may change—or not—depending on the outcome of UoPeople’s bid for accreditation from the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), whose decision is expected this month. It’s a delicate balance.”

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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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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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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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Higher Education Education Further Education Policy 40

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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Higher Education Administration Education Policy 67

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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Higher Education Education Further Education Model 81