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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

The arrival of the ‘alternative provider’ In 1997 the Dearing Report saw diversity in British higher education institutions as an advantage ‘especially in providing for student choice; in programme and pedagogic innovation’ and ‘in the ability of the sector as a whole to meet the wide range of expectations now relevant to higher education’.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. 15, the Commissioners who were to frame new Statutes for each of the two universities were required to ‘have regard to the interests of education, religion, learning and research’.

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Strikes disrupt undergraduate learning anew

Inside Higher Ed

Many of these students’ college experiences already have been impacted by COVID-19, and this new disruption is especially challenging due to the internal nature of the conflict and the lack of clear guidance about how to proceed. Then, later in the week, came compromise. Inflation and housing costs have been key issues. visa statuses.

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