The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

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.

Schooling

The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Government likely to treat FE sector as ‘big schools’, removing autonomy over borrowing and investment Further education (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.

Further Education

HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

Labour’s thinking about higher education is set in the context of “pathways to good prospects for all” In terms of sheer word count, further education, and technical and vocational pathways attract more text than anything on higher education, and that’s not a bad thing. appeared first on HEPI.

Educational Policy

HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

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 education policies turned into riots in central London. Oxford students want X’ carries a lot less weight or relevance than ‘the student movement wants X’.

Students

The PIE News

MARCH 6, 2023

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.

Engineering

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.

Higher Education

HEPI

APRIL 7, 2025

Many of these headwinds were experienced by further education (FE) colleges not that long ago, and many would agree these have not vanished completely. Navigating the regulatory landscape and remaining compliant with educational policy is complex and will be breaking new ground for many management teams.

University

SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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 further education (FE) college. The follow-up focused on two further subject areas. Research versus evaluation activities.’

Higher Education

HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

Creating a parity of esteem between Further Education 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.

Policy

The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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?

Education

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.

Disadvantaged

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.

Higher Education

SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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 further education colleges, suggesting that the authors lean towards tertiary solutions.

Educational Systems

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

She both struggled to pay her loans and felt limited in her ability to advance her career without further education. ” 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.

University

SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

by Rob Cuthbert The leader’s speech to Conference was expected to include far-reaching proposals for higher and further education. We obtained this leaked text of an early draft: “It is time for radical change.

Arts And Sciences

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.

Higher Education

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.

Disadvantaged

HEPI

APRIL 14, 2025

The report, which is based on an analysis of data from a survey of 1,105 undergraduates in England, found that over half of participants wanted to have received more education on personal finances and budgeting (59%) and to have had more opportunities to learn life skills (51%) prior to entering higher education.

Higher Education

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!

Higher Education

HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For example, the language of playing a civic leadership role, with which we are very comfortable in higher education policy circles, does not always sit so well with local authority colleagues. Strong connections with further education and schools are critical to increase access for all parts of the community.

University

HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The first 30 polytechnics were the result of two higher education policies 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 further education were capped.

Higher Education

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.

Higher Education

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.

Higher Education

The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy 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 further education.

Higher Education

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.

Higher Education