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New funding models explored as UK HEIs “running out of road”

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Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. The UK is known for its world class higher education system and this needs to be protected.”

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In praise of Dr Tony Bruce

HEPI

Viv Stern (Chief Executive of Universities UK) Tony Bruce was Policy Director of what was then the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals (CVCP) from April 1993 to 2010, by which time it had merged with the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics (CDP) and become Universities UK (UUK). We are honoured to have known him.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

As noted in many of these documents, the indirect impacts of human mobility to the UK, and EU research support, are plentiful too. In a process that began in 2010 (see my Unsettling the University-Territory Relationship via Applied Sciences NYC ) a long-term experiment in reconfiguring the university-territory relationship was launched.

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Preparing for Government again: how the higher education sector needs to prepare for the next Labour administration

HEPI

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. We all remember how that went.

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Narratives at SRHE 2023 – more than just mere rhetoric

SRHE

What has this got to do with an academic conference on higher education? The power of media, narrative story and the broader humanities have the capacity to convey stories through genres such as drama and comedy in compelling and accessible ways. Narratives play a key role in human communication. Narratives are not going away.