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Ask not what you can do for engineering…

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Engineering is a UK powerhouse sector, growing in all UK regions and impacting all economic sectors. Engineers design, build and maintain the infrastructure, products and services that our economy and society depend on, provide life-saving medical devices, and are the drivers in our transition to a more sustainable world.

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Weekend Reading: Rethinking the Cost of Higher Education – A Lecture Revisited

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More than eleven years later, we revisit his lecture to consider what lessons it holds for today’s higher education sector. John Denham, March 2025 RSA Lecture The Cost of Higher Education Good evening. I want to change the terms of the debate, not present a detailed plan for university education.

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2025 and beyond: The road ahead for Australian universities

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2024 was the year Australia doubled down on its ambition to create a stronger, fairer, and more future-ready higher education system as it works to implement recommendations laid out in the Universities Accord. By 2050, universities must double the number of domestic students they educate annually from 900,000 today to 1.8

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In defence of international education 

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And yet my first act after I arrived home was to defend to a BBC investigative journalist the journey of people just like me who had travelled halfway across the world to spend their family’s money in that most precious of investments, a global education. Our students become engineers and doctors, business leaders and lawyers.

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From Potholes to Progress: How Higher Education is Driving Solutions to the UK’s Pressing Challenges

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This speaks directly to the Secretary of State for Educations five key priorities for reform of the higher education system that universities should play a great civic role in their communities. But another thing that is so exciting about this discovery is where it came from.

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The Danger of Homogenisation: Why specialist HEIs are crucial to the success of UK Higher Education and the Government’s priorities

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Below, as the government considers higher education reform, Dr Brooke Storer-Church and Dr Kate Wicklow make the case for specialist higher education institutions and warn against the dangers of homogenisation. You can read that piece here.

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Did Egalitarians Wreck the British Education System? – Review of ‘A Revolution Betrayed’ by Peter Hitchens

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Review of Peter Hitchens’s new book ‘A Revolution Betrayed : How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System’ by Paul Ashwin, Professor of Higher Education, Head of Department and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education, Lancaster University.