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Shifts, shocks, fragility: are English universities on a sustainable course? By John Raftery

HEPI

It was a clear indication of the shift in direction in education policy when the preparations for the new regulatory approach involved consultations, not with the universities but with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the National Audit Office. [2] The power of the student voice has been amplified.

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Survey Examines College Enrollment Amid Post Pandemic Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is a sharp increase from pre-pandemic levels that showed 14 percent of students feeling this way in EAB’s 2019 survey. These students are already faced with many disadvantages. This is a sharp difference to 2019 when only 8 percent of students surveyed expressed this sentiment. Dr. Douglas N.

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Student number caps: For the many not the few (But what if the few matter too?)

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(The original consultation came on the back of the Augar report which was published in 2019. I know higher education policy can be slow but the school pupils applying to higher education when the Augar report came out graduated last summer.

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

SRHE

McCann (2019) has argued that ‘the UK has the greatest spatial inequality in Europe’, a view endorsed by IPPR North (Webb et al, 2022) and by the Levelling Up White Paper (2022 para 1.2.1). Of course these figures reflect the pre-and post-1992 divide and the league table perceptions of university applicants.

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

” The Crest of a ‘New Wave’ In the strategic plan, the commission notes the proposal is part of a “new wave” of higher education policy focused on value rather than enrollment or degree attainment.

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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.

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WEEKEND READING: Look Wot You Dun – Higher education in the run up to election ’24

HEPI

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.