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Government likely to treat FE sector as ‘big schools’, removing autonomy over borrowing and investment Furthereducation (FE) colleges are likely to be treated as “big schools” by the government and lose critical financial independence, after a ruling reclassified colleges in England as part of central government.
Labour’s thinking about higher education is set in the context of “pathways to good prospects for all” In terms of sheer word count, furthereducation, and technical and vocational pathways attract more text than anything on higher education, and that’s not a bad thing. appeared first on HEPI.
Such an approach indicates a significant amount of effort is therefore required to do something supposedly so essential to the smooth operation of a tertiary education system.
With a total 70,000 Indian students currently studying in Australia, the country is the largest overseas market for Australia’s independent tertiary education providers, ITECA noted. The UA/ AIU MoU will lead to increased student and faculty exchange, dual and joint degrees, twinning programs and research collaborations, Mittal continued.
By choosing a title that sounded a lot like A-levels with T for technical the reformers behind Englands latest post-16 qualification sent a message that the days of vocational educations second-class status were over. They were supposed to boost vocational learning, but theyre not popular with students and the dropout rate is high.
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.
In both instances, the principal aim was to understand better the challenges to HE progression faced by those on advanced level applied and professional courses (including BTECs) at a Midlands based furthereducation (FE) college. The follow-up focused on two further subject areas. Research versus evaluation activities.’
Creating a parity of esteem between FurtherEducation and Higher Education, or between ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’, is often suggested as a good idea to improve skills shortages, achieve levelling up and promote economic growth.
by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past educationpolicies. The polytechnics were designated in the 1960s as new institutions formed from existing technical and other colleges within the English furthereducation system, and with one in Wales.
The first 30 polytechnics were the result of two higher educationpolicies launched by the Labour Government that came to power in 1964. These policies emerged from an ever-increasing demand for vocational, professional and industry-based expertise. In 1979, funds for advanced furthereducation were capped.
Baroness Smith was keen on the idea of partnerships stating: ‘Better progression from furthereducation 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!
My friend and colleague Tony Millns, who has died aged 73, was the chief executive of English UK , an association of accredited language schools. Over his career, his work led to the introduction of university tuition fees and supported a boom in the number of international English-language students. Tony was a visionary and a fixer.
Snobbery and a lack of transparency around Labour’s review of vocational qualifications may be why there isn’t more outrage Have you heard that an axe is dangling over courses being taken by 590,000 16-to 18-year-olds in England?
The Report does not make any recommendations on governance structures for education but strongly commends the South Wales Civic Engagement Partnership (SWCEP), which involves five universities and five furthereducation colleges, suggesting that the authors lean towards tertiary solutions.
She both struggled to pay her loans and felt limited in her ability to advance her career without furthereducation. ” Today, more students of color, more low-income students, more women and more students with physical or mental health concerns seek higher education than in earlier decades. Some students need lower costs.
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.
by Rob Cuthbert The leader’s speech to Conference was expected to include far-reaching proposals for higher and furthereducation. We obtained this leaked text of an early draft: “It is time for radical change.
Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and EducationPolicy at Indiana University. There, she led studies and evaluations focused on education and post-high school programs within the United States and across Europe. They can lead to furthereducation.
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.
For example, the language of playing a civic leadership role, with which we are very comfortable in higher educationpolicy circles, does not always sit so well with local authority colleagues. Strong connections with furthereducation and schools are critical to increase access for all parts of the community.
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.
The speaker of these words was the then Minister for Higher and FurtherEducation, 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 furthereducation (FE) sector.
This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher EducationPolicy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in educationpolicy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.
Yet not long afterwards, once Willetts had taken up his position as the Minister for Universities and Science, NUS-backed protests against the Coalition’s higher educationpolicies turned into riots in central London. Oxford students want X’ carries a lot less weight or relevance than ‘the student movement wants X’.
1] Similar desiderata are explored in a recent Report of the Higher EducationPolicy 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.
‘Universities must do more to raise their impact beyond their gates’, Phillipson said, so as ‘to drive the growth that this country sorely needs’ including by ‘joining with Skills England, employers and partners in furthereducation to deliver the skills that people and businesses need’.
As an example, Westminster politicians demanding more two-year degrees , perhaps in lower cost furthereducation colleges, could do well to look at the sharp decline of two-year degrees in US community colleges.
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