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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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. The follow-up focused on two further subject areas. Higher Education Policy Institute Report 140, [link] , 17-23. by Neil Raven. Online] Available at: [link].

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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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. Courtney, welcome to the program.

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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.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved. 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.

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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.

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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. At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. But now we need to change course.

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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.

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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?

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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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HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education podcast. In higher education, where scale matters a lot, small size puts a crimp in what you can do. This was also true with respect to higher education. But this year in particular, the pace of policy-making there has really sped up.

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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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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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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This is despite an increasing focus on civic universities over recent years within the higher education sector. 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.

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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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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. A provider of higher education may see itself as a member of a group in ways remote from the region.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

A few years later, I found myself working for a senior government minister (David Willetts) with responsibility for higher education who had a soft spot for the NUS and its leadership. However, no higher education policy conversation ever sensibly starts with Oxford (or Cambridge) because they are so untypical.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

by GR Evans A change of government has not changed the government’s power to intrude upon the autonomy of providers of higher education, which is constrained chiefly by its being limited to the financial. She promised those for the future, ‘To build a higher education system fit for the challenges not just of today but of tomorrow’.

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HEPI

JULY 3, 2024

Critics of the way that England funds higher education often assume we have copied the United States. But anyone who regards the way England pays for higher education as a carbon copy of what happens on the other side of the Atlantic needs to take a much closer look. For me, there are some particularly striking findings.

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