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The Robbins Review – Lessons for the Future by Professor Huw Morris

HEPI

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review. Hillman, N.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

jules While the raison d’etre of the syllabi has gone unchanged, aspects of society have evolved, and we find ourselves in the middle of a racial awakening since 2013 and the rise of the global Black Lives Matter Movement. jules is a professor of cultural & educational policy studies at Loyola University Chicago.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In 2013, John Lombardi, who had served as president of the University of Florida and Louisiana State, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and provost of Johns Hopkins University, wrote an insightful short book, How Universities Work ( Johns Hopkins University Press ). His email address is jthelin@uky.edu.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

Oberlin said in 2013 that it planned to raise median faculty pay to that of peer institutions, but as of 2021 faculty pay at Oberlin ranked 15th among a group of 16 other peer institutions, according to a faculty analysis. It’s hard to say, but I’m sure it will change over time, and it will change the nature of the institution.”

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

As the year progressed we were thinking about the future (No 10 Strengths, weaknesses and the future of research into higher education ) and asking ourselves at the 2012 Conference What is higher education for? ’ (No 11). In sum, we seem to be edging closer to repeating the history of rail privatisation.

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

Yet, in Education, only 42 UoAs, out of 83, met that criterion; eight being modern universities. There were other overshoots: in History, Cambridge submitted 170%, Oxford 120%, perhaps linked to college staff not based in a department. Between 2013-4 and 2019-20, annual numbers went up from 774 to 964, nearly 20%.