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Funding undergraduate higher education

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One option is to recast the system as students investing in their education through an advance of their anticipated higher pay. A further fall in the proportion getting their firm (‘first’) choice, taking this important measure of choice back to levels last seen in the highly constrained 2011 entry year.

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Whatever happened to all those ‘alternative providers’ of higher education? By Nick Hillman

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While Margaret Thatcher was the Secretary of State for Education and Science in the 1970s , she instructed people working in independent educational institutions to: ‘never apologise for independence. A permanent solution was outlined in the higher education white Paper of 2011, Students at the Heart of the System.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? Daniels Of course, I was not reading academic journals and higher education publications then. Over the years, I’ve observed at least seven (7) best practices in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education that other media outlets might be well-served to emulate: 1.

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

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By Michael Shattock Editor’s note: Michael Shattock is the guru of governance studies in HE; SRHE Blog is delighted to bring you his invitation to researchers in HE to expand their work in governance – a definitive statement about the many contributions that governance research can make to our understanding of higher education.

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The Bologna Process 25 years on: higher education quality and international trust

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Baroness Blackstone was Minister for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, and has led two universities: Birkbeck, from 1987 to 1997, and the University of Greenwich, from 2004 to 2011. The policy paper outlines how realigning with this good practice could help retain international trust in UK higher education.

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A place for data: Illustrating how the higher education sector may support more inclusive growth

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This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Tej Nathwani, Principal Researcher (Economist) at HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. For the sector, the question this has raised is; How might (higher) education play a role in helping to tackle the twin challenge of poor productivity and high inequality?

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Yemen: the globe’s forgotten higher education crisis?

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While diplomatic efforts continue to bring an end fighting between Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the country, The PIE wanted to identify ways in which the international education sector can assist and change the lives of those in the country for the better. A quarter of scholars in 2022 were from Yemen.