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Where next? A new dawn for the OfS (OfS over the horizon, part II)

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This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Derfel Owen ( LinkedIn ), Director of Education Services at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Ant Bagshaw , Senior Advisor at L.E.K. This is the second part of two blogs focusing on the Office for Students. The current approach is strangling degree-level apprenticeships.

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Is the future tertiary?

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This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. If change is coming, will this be incentivised or even forced upon institutions? Their activity may encourage more HE in FE, but there are few incentives the other way.

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Does the multiplication of alternative providers call for a new review of higher education?

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T his post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. It suggested that the ‘status of these colleges would best be assured and the problem of degrees satisfactorily solved by a closer association with the universities’.

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Can the HE sector just carry on as it is now??

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Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University.

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WEEKEND READING: Looking back and looking forwards

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We have been running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a series of blogs over the summer. Since HEPI was founded in 2002, it has published around 160 Reports (blue books), 50 Policy Notes and over 30 Debate Papers (red books, but originally yellow Occasional Papers) as well as over 1,500 blog posts.

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Reducing Burden, Enhancing Quality: Ambitions for a New Regulatory Framework – Part 1

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This HEPI blog is the first of a two-part series, kindly authored by Dr Paul Greatrix , Registrar at the University of Nottingham. At a time of limited funding for universities and colleges and a declining unit of resource, the sector can ill afford the growing cost of regulation. How Did We End Up Here?

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Have the Higher Education & Research Act and the Office for Students delivered for new and ‘challenger’ providers?

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This blog is provided by Professor Sir Malcolm Grant and Mary Curnock Cook CBE. It was an enactment of the ideas put forward in 2016 by Jo Johnson, then Universities Minister, in the White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy. The Higher Education & Research Act 2017 (HERA) was conceived in a different policy age.