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Adding to the University Funding Debate: Increasing Transparency into University Finances

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Lily Bull , Policy Manager at the Russell Group. The Russell Group has today published new research on the funding model for research-intensive universities: that report can be accessed here. The harsh financial reality The financial data for English universities paints a clear picture.

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So, you think diversity matters? Do something about it!

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ken Sloan, the Vice-Chancellor and CEO of Harper Adams University. I welcome the recent paper by Edward Venning Size is Everything: What Small, Specialist and Practice Based Providers tell us about the Higher Education Sector (HEPI Report 160).

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Accommodation shortages: are the odds stacked against students?

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by Martin Blakey, CEO of Unipol, a student housing charity. b) In the Covid-hit cycles of 2020/21 and 2021/22, a lot of higher-tariff universities experienced a spike in full-time home undergraduate intakes as a consequence of A-level grade inflation, produced by emergency changes to methods of assessment.

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3 Questions for a Community College Director on Chromebooks

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Andy Specht , the Director of Information Technology Services at Allan Hancock College , reached out after reading my piece Why So Few Chromebooks in Higher Ed? What is the story of Chromebooks and Allan Hancock College? The process to get Chromebooks up and running was pleasantly easy and fast.

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

HEPI

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. You have given me a lengthy list of issues to cover. You have given me a lengthy list of issues to cover.

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Editorial: The End of the Year Show

SRHE

At the time of writing there seems little prospect of rapprochement between the employers and the Universities and Colleges Union. To make things even worse, universities, under pressure from government, the media, and the regulator OfS, have cut back sharply on the proportion of first class honours to be awarded.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?