HEPI

APRIL 4, 2023

On 22 June 2023, John Cater will complete three decades as the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, rendering him the longest-serving head of a higher education institution in the UK. HEPI is marking the occasion by publishing his thoughts on higher education in 2030. Thirty years ago, I was a geographer.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A week on from the Labour Government’s first Budget, it is clear that its first 100 days have left universities, further education colleges, and apprenticeship providers in England in a state of uncomfortable anticipation. However, what has been noticeably absent is a clear and strategic vision for post-18 education and training.

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SRHE

MAY 28, 2024

By Michael Shattock Editor’s note: Michael Shattock is the guru of governance studies in HE; SRHE Blog is delighted to bring you his invitation to researchers in HE to expand their work in governance – a definitive statement about the many contributions that governance research can make to our understanding of higher education.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Tej Nathwani, Principal Researcher (Economist) at HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. For the sector, the question this has raised is; How might (higher) education play a role in helping to tackle the twin challenge of poor productivity and high inequality?

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HEPI

JANUARY 25, 2023

You would be hard pressed to find someone in either the higher education sector or Westminster willing to argue that the current funding system for universities is working well. According to the Association of Colleges, at least 20 colleges sought borrowing approvals from the Department for Education in December 2022 alone.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

As we navigate these ‘in-between times’, we can forget the extraordinary impact that higher education, as a sector, and HEPI, as a think tank, has had over the last 20 years (as Bahram Bekhradnia and Roger Brown recount). The debate therefore is what is the ‘form’ and what is the ‘part’.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2024

While manhood is not defined as a monolith, onboarding descriptions, presentations, and further educational sources need to document an increased variety of manhood and leadership examples to more accurately reflect that of the entering classes of students. Dr. Harrison P.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Supporting Student Success in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide editor Thu, 07/20/2023 - 04:08 Higher education is an exciting and transformative journey, offering students a wealth of opportunities for personal growth and academic achievement. This is where Student Success in Higher Education peeps in.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Buttle UK’s grants provide essential items for children’s education, homes and wellbeing. Nevertheless, we know that most young people interact with education settings at least until the age of 18, meaning that higher and further education settings can be primary actors in driving change. I decided I can’t do it.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education. It concluded that to ‘confer degree-giving powers on all the existing’ Further Education Colleges ‘would be inappropriate because of the number involved, the variation in their sizes and the diversity of standards’.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our community values education: our children attend school as often as possible and, as parents, we support our children as they achieve amazing things academically. Our young people are more likely now than ever before to continue from primary into secondary education. Showmen are achieving amazing things in education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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.

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2024

UK education exports hit £27.9 Of the total, transnational education exports were valued at £2.4bn. The share of the total attributed to higher education was 77.9% at £21.74bn and education products and services at £2.15bn. While in 2011, ELT made up 11.8%

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

What is an even greater scandal than student debt and collapsing apprenticeships is that adult education, which used to give people a second chance to gain GCSEs and A-levels or vocational qualifications suited to their aspirations, is now virtually nonexistent. Continue reading.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Katherine Emms is a Senior Education & Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation. The current shortage of high-skilled professionals has again placed vocational education centre stage. Formed between 1969 and 1973, England’s polytechnics offered higher education courses in vocational areas.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The research found that less than half of higher education participants – 45% – felt the funding provided by Turing covered at least half of their costs on placement. This figure was higher for further education and vocational education and training participants at 86%.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Further education colleges are used to being overlooked and underfunded – but the free speech bill will have serious consequences for the sector, argues Julian Gravatt. The post What would be the impact of the freedom of speech bill on colleges? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It has become an important educational marketing tool that helps schools achieve impressive results , mostly in student recruitment. At HEM, we have over fifteen years of effective education marketing experience to draw from, so we fully understand the value that PPC advertising provides.

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HEPI

MARCH 5, 2023

Tomorrow (7 March), HEPI will be hosting its first Annual Lecture since the start of the pandemic, with Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills at the OECD. For further details, see here. Repayment terms are identical to higher education undergraduate student loans.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If there is another 0.25% increase in the base rate, as is widely anticipated, this will place government and university finances under further pressure over the next few years with significant negative implications for HE students, the UK Government’s education budget in general and the further education college budget in particular.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road. Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved.

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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. Courtney Brown of the Lumina Foundation Higher ed leaders can learn what 6,000 current students, 3,000 people who stopped out, and 3,000 more who never enrolled in a U.S.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Vice-chancellors say universities ‘essential to economic growth’ and that maintenance grants should be restored Ministers should aim for 70% of young people to continue their education after leaving school by 2040, while tuition fees in England should be increased, according to the leaders of UK’s universities.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

When the Tories committed to cutting spending on higher education through increasing tuition fees, why did they not use some of the money saved to increase spending on further education (technical and vocational education) and nursery education?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The government is making welcome moves to overhaul a sector in financial turmoil, but institutions face tough choices Philip Augar chaired the May government’s review of post-18 education and funding One of Britain’s most globally successful industries is under financial pressure.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I spent nearly 40 years working in further education colleges and Birkbeck was my role model for second-chance learners. Four years later, I had my degree and a PGCE. From 1980, I was developing access courses to break down the barriers for adults to get to university.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The rise of online-only education has been a double-edged sword. While it has expanded access to higher education, it has also introduced a new breed of institutions (robocolleges), students (robostudents), and workers (roboworkers). A list of America's largest robocolleges is here.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The students attending Regent College London told investigators from England’s higher education regulator that teaching staff changed frequently, including one cover tutor who “arrived almost half an hour late” to host an online class and “was clearly travelling or in a public place”.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The IFS’s annual look at education spending reveals that further education and sixth form colleges could experience particular hardship, with rising numbers of students after steep cuts in funding until 2019, which have only been partially reversed by the government. Continue reading.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Such subcontractual partnerships – while presenting several benefits for students and higher education institutions (HEIs) alike – also present risks, according to an Office for Students (OfS) insights document published on September 3.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2023

Exclusive: Report reveals postcode lottery as barely half FE institutions offer some form of language teaching Business groups and language experts are calling on ministers to make linguistic skills a core part of vocational training, after research found young people are unable to study languages at large numbers of further education colleges.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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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The PIE News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In the latest Senate Education Employment Legislation Committee report , the committee has recommended that the controversial student cap on international student enrolments be instated. It appears to be all universities, public and private, and TAFEs which are government funded Technical and Further Education colleges.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A review of research into the employment effects of higher and further education by the government’s Social Mobility Commission showed wide variations in earnings, with some courses failing to boost salaries, while the most lucrative courses for graduates often admitted few students in England from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 24, 2024

John Cope, Independent Strategic Advisor, & Senior Counsel (Education & Skills), PLMR. We also made clear that in all likelihood there is a plateau and potential drop in higher education numbers after 2030. However, it can hardly be called ‘the norm’, sadly, with adult education still overlooked in the policy debate.

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HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

Keir Starmer has committed Labour to five ambitious missions, of which the fifth is squarely focused on educational transformation. It’s a rallying call against inequality of opportunity and unfair access to education which prevents potential from being realised. But the commitment to early years makes exceptionally good sense.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Having returned from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool and dried out our shoes, bags and umbrellas, we round up the higher education themes we heard from three days of debate and discussion. The new Government is a big fan of higher education. Do we detect yet another enquiry into the future of higher education?)

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