The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 5, 2023

Warning comes after party ditched its promise to abolish university tuition fees in England UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has been warned that he has “no easy options” over student loans and higher education financing, after the Labour leader’s decision to scrap an earlier policy of abolishing tuition fees in England.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

.” One federal state, Baden-Württemberg, introduced fees for non-EU students in 2017/18 , but has already announced the fees will be abolished in the next months. TU München in Bavaria said it would begin charging non-EU students fees from the 2024/25 winter semester.

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HEPI

MARCH 4, 2024

There has been a decrease in the number of institutions awarded Gold, 20% compared to 35% in 2017, but this is subject to change as ‘pending’ outcomes are finalised. A 2018 survey by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 73% of students said that the TEF had influenced their decision of where to study.

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HEPI

JANUARY 18, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Pat Tissington , Academic Director (Employability and Skills) at the University of Warwick and Dr Pat Mertova , Consultant in Higher Education and Policy at the Associates in Higher Education Policy, Development and Quality (AHEPDQ).

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Frankly, a lot of academics, especially in the field of education, were having trouble seeing the overlap between BIPOC students, tech, and media cultures. I found more support in communications and sociology, but I was in an Education Policy Ph.D. I switched my focus to online learning in higher education, and here we are!

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The basic idea on fees and funding in the Dearing report of a fee that would not be differentiated by subject, for example, but which would cover one-quarter of the average cost of higher education tuition backed by an income-contingent loan has actually proved remarkably durable. Here we are, 25 years later, still talking about it.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Building on a previous blog post by the Higher Education Policy Institute, this post seeks to explore the issues with the current Bill for the student accommodation sector – and why parity between purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and the private student rental sector is needed.

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SRHE

AUGUST 21, 2023

by Katherine Emms The 2017 Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) enabled new and innovative HE providers to enter and establish themselves, with the aim of diversifying the HE sector. The process from registering as a HE provider to gaining DAPs was often seen as a slow and, for some, complicated process.

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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. In the 1960s/1970s the polytechnics tackled skill shortages facing many sectors in the UK economy; in 2017 Degree Apprenticeships (DAs) were established for similar reasons.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

In 2012 the fee was increased to £9000 and in 2017 to £9250. The Dearing report in 1997 had acknowledged that both state and individuals benefit from higher education and both should bear some of the cost and risk, (as should employers in Dearing’s view). As fees from students went up, Government funding to universities went down.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“It has been the desire of many entrepreneurs, foundations and policy leaders that microcredentials will become the substitute for expensive degrees,” Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University, said.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2023

So I began my preparations by going back to see what I said when I last spoke to the Hallam Board, back in 2017. I started my remarks then by noting the level of flux in higher education policy. For example, back then there was considerable uncertainty over many higher education policies.

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SRHE

MAY 11, 2023

Alongside this, new higher education journals have emerged over recent years. Policy Reviews in Higher Education , for example, was launched in 2017, with the remit of publishing articles that engage explicitly with topical policy questions and significant areas of higher education policy development.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Amy Costa, president of the Board of Governors, said she wants someone who is “student focused and centered” and will continue implementing the Vision for Success , a strategic plan instituted by Oakley to close equity gaps and increase transfer and graduation rates and adopted by the system in 2017.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Many institutions claim maintenance of rigor, curricular control or accreditation standards, but the true question at play is whether the institution embraces a transfer-receptive culture ( Taylor and Jain 2017 ). Jeff Weber is an AACRAO member with more than 30 years of experience in higher education policy and research.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Higher Education and Research Act (2017) depends heavily on the belief that, with the block grant shrunk to vanishing point for teaching and tuition fees a chief source of university income, HEFCE’s allocation of a block grant in the capacity of a buffer between Government and providers would no longer be enough.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 aimed to enshrine the market with students as customers, and established the Office for Students. No 27 Post-truth and the Higher Education and Research Bill ). In 2017 amid political ferment we asked What’s wrong with higher education management? (No

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. What we are finding here is pretty large,” said Liu, equivalent to hundreds of additional students staying in school and earning degrees.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3). Performance funding for higher education: Do financial incentives impact college completions? Educational Policy, 27 (4), 645-675.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In 2017-18 it admitted only 14% of its home students from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority region, much of which would be classified as economically deprived. In 2017-18 only 34% of its graduates took employment in the region and this figure would have been boosted by the graduate deposit from a large medical school.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

“There’s valuable educational and skill information hiding in plain sight with regard to some of these candidates,” said Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study. “Why do these systems not call for more detailed information?

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

For most of the Coalition period the Universities Minister was David (now Lord) Willetts, who was perhaps the main architect of the Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) 2017, eventually steered into law by Jo (now Lord) Johnson. HERA legislated for the HE ‘market’ and created a new regulator, the Office for Students (OfS).

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Whilst the datafication of education (Stevenson, 2017) is not a new concept, the new OfS guidelines are likely to exacerbate this approach, indeed it can be seen as a formalisation of an ongoing process. Stevenson, H (2017) ‘The “Datafication” of Teaching: Can Teachers Speak Back to the Numbers?’ 2017.1349492.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We committed to a second phase of the project (HS2) through legislation in the Higher Education and Research Act in 2017. The first part of this (HS1) was achieved some years ago through investment in infrastructure connecting the UK with the rest of Europe. But now we need to change course.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A 2017 essay from Derek Bok, Harvard University's former president, offered advice on how to improve the quality of higher education. " That question loomed over federal higher education policy for much of 2022. " Top Reads from Earlier Years. "What Will Biden Do on Loans?:"

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The PIE News

AUGUST 21, 2023

The UK is closing its gap with the US in the latest Soft-Power Index, with the latter retaining top spot having educated 65 world leaders. Since 2017, the last year when the UK boasted having the most serving world leaders as alumni of any country in the world, the US has extended its lead every year after overtaking the UK in 2018.

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The PIE News

JUNE 26, 2023

The group also influences European educational policy and develops best practice through mutual exchange of experience. It is committed to creating special academic and cultural ties to promote internationalisation, academic collaboration, excellence in learning and research, and service to society.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As for Labour, their Education pledges look set to focus on early years provision (again, perhaps framed as a productivity issue), and promises on training nurses and doctors. The party’s higher education policies, however, seem to be still forming – and along familiar lines. appeared first on HEPI.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

The word ‘research’ appears in the Bill only as part of the title of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 and a few times in connection with checks on overseas funding for research. The vandalising of the Cambridge Departmental door was prompted by remarks on the value of research in areas in dispute.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

” Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act is one of Foxx’s top priorities, along with reauthorizing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which is aimed at helping job seekers access employment, education and training. Higher ed associations opposed the risk-sharing concept when she proposed it in 2017.

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