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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.

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SRHE Digital University: what’s on in 2023

SRHE

The postdigital engages specifically with our current state of technological development, where digital technologies appear to be both ubiquitous, but also increasingly invisible, as they sink down into the mundane activities of everyday (educational) life.

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Gamekeepers, poachers, policy wonks and knowledge

SRHE

I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. It was the first time I’d been to London since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Yes, I could have said knowledge and understanding instead of epistemology.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. “We use bots in serving our students,” Reshef said, adding that this frees human professors to do work that is better suited to human minds. Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine. ’ 10,000 times. Some students need lower costs.

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Higher ed policies drive layoffs and cuts in the UK, Australia and Canada

The PIE News

The layoffs would lead to almost half the academics in the schools of arts and humanities, culture and society, professional studies and science and technology losing their jobs. Just 384 new overseas students have so far enrolled for 2024, 8% of 2019 levels.

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Real Faculty Wages Decline for Third Straight Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Melissa Fuesting, senior survey researcher for the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), the pandemic cannot be solely to blame. For many parts of the country, you’d have to teach 20 classes in order to make a living. Any increase doesn’t make these jobs livable.”

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

The PIE News

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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