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The regulation of student education: are the quality wars back?

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Professor Roger Brown, former Vice-Chancellor of Solent University. Prior to 1992 each side of the binary line was regulated differently. Roger recently wrote for HEPI on neoliberalism in English higher education which you can read here. Background First, a bit of background.

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The contested rise of ‘institutional autonomy’

HEPI

The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is also conducting an inquiry. A Public Accounts Committee report on ‘alternative providers’ published in February 2015 acknowledged that the Department had ‘pressed ahead with the expansion of the alternative provider sector without a robust legislative framework to protect public money’.

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Irregulation: is the Office for Students fit for purpose?

SRHE

by Rob Cuthbert, SRHE News Editor The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has decided to investigate the OfS. Despite being part of a mass participation system, receiving significant taxpayer funding, too many do not accept the basic fact that they should be regulated.”

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Ed Department Shakes Up OPMs and Third-Party Servicers: This Is Huge

WCET Frontiers

There has been much interest in assuring student consumer protection in this growing industry and in institutional outsourcing. Did you hear that loud noise last Wednesday? For those in the middle of the country, it was the Kansas City Chiefs victory parade. For those in higher education, the U.S. It covers any contracted service.

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2: The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

As we mentioned in the previous blog, this requires the board to step into a consulting role instead of only an oversight role. As institutions continue to evolve, so must the way boards operate. Evolving with a holistic approach is more important now than it’s ever been.

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Is franchising out of control?

HEPI

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Franchising, like Topsy, has ‘just growed’. 1] The legislation does not prescribe the rules to be followed in making such arrangements.

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Memo to Universities UK: don’t let this crisis go to waste

SRHE

She had taken to telephoning individual vice-chancellors to question some aspect of university management or student behaviour, while enthusiastically pursuing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which at the time of writing is at the committee stage in the House of Lords, procedurally close to its establishment in statute – perhaps.