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

HEPI

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The Commons debated ‘Higher Education’ on 28 November 2012. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy. It remains important.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. percentage points, respectively).

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5 career services to support your professional and adult learners

EAB

Twenty-two percent of adult learners we surveyed said internships, co-ops, and other active-learning experiences help convey the value of education when they are selecting a graduate or adult-serving programs. Read on for ways to support your adult learners through career services. Adult learner recruitment 2.

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Strikes disrupt undergraduate learning anew

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Tensions escalated last week between the University of California system and the New School and their respective striking academic workers. On Saturday night, the university and the union reached a tentative agreement, ending the strike. Then, later in the week, came compromise. Inflation and housing costs have been key issues.

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Radical proposals in leader’s conference speech

SRHE

by Rob Cuthbert The leader’s speech to Conference was expected to include far-reaching proposals for higher and further education. At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. HS2 is the ultimate example of the old consensus.

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Flexible Learning Pathways – a new HE or something else?

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by John Brennan, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at the Open University and Visiting Professor at the University of Bath. Higher education is changing. And what do they get from their flexible higher education? And what do they get from their flexible 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. A Concordat and Agreements Review (April 2023) formed a joint attempt to define ‘research culture’ initiated by Universities UK, UKRI and Wellcome. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.