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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

The Guardian - Higher Education

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.

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UK universities are in crisis – and Labour has taken the first step towards saving them | Philip Augar

The Guardian - Higher Education

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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An Apology for the Liberal Arts

HEPI

What is the purpose of a university education? What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? A liberal arts education is what a society — a civilisation — ought to champion. Only a liberal arts education can properly perform these functions. Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees.

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WEEKEND READING: The next 20 years – rediscovering the social purpose of higher education

HEPI

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). 2 During that time, UK universities have grown from graduating almost 600,000 people in 2003, to over 900,000 in 2022.

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

SRHE

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

HEPI

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The Commons debated ‘Higher Education’ on 28 November 2012. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy. The wording continues to be relied on.

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Does the multiplication of alternative providers call for a new review of higher education?

HEPI

T his post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education.