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Innovation under Regulation

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This HEPI blog was kindly written by the Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University and Chief Executive of LSBU Group, Professor David Phoenix. Has regulation of higher education gone too far? Added to the issues posed by the primary regulators, OfS and Ofsted, many technically-focused universities face further challenges.

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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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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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Beyond Groupthink: A Mixed Economy Model for Higher Education Funding

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Peter Ainsworth, the author of Setting Universities Free: How to deliver a sustainable student funding system (2022) Picture the 1930s economic slump, absent Keynes’s challenge to prevailing thought.

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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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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.