SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Examples noted by the researchers include stagnant productivity levels, large disparities in economic performance between areas and inequalities in our education system. Naturally, one of the questions being increasingly asked of the UK higher education sector is how it is helping to resolve some of the latter issues.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. The polytechnics were designated in the 1960s as new institutions formed from existing technical and other colleges within the English further education system, and with one in Wales.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

A new study by EAB highlights a trend among students who feel unsure about their commitment to college due to growing concerns about affordability, academic success, and mental health preparedness. According to the survey, more than one in five students (22 percent) have decided to opt out of college because they are not mentally ready.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved. It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Now, a new study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University has shown that summer Pell has had meaningful benefits, improving retention, attainment, and even earnings up to nine years after college entry for students who received it. Summer Pell seems to offer particular help to disadvantaged groups.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The event was introduced by the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Education, Margaret Greenwood MP, who said that a gender pay gap and class ceiling in many sectors for disadvantaged women had been exacerbated by Covid, its aftermath and cost-of-living crisis – and this event was timely.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The speaker of these words was the then Minister for Higher and Further Education, Michelle Donelan and the sentiment underpins many of the current mechanisms used for assessing quality in English HE. A key consequence of this shift has been a reimagining of the relationship between the student and the institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And what is the role of higher education institutions in providing spaces that prepare young adults to vote and otherwise engage in civic life? In a recently published article in the journal Educational Policy , J. Our goal was to understand what aspects of the college campus were related to broader political engagement.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For this reason, colleges often identify program experiences that align with their values and target specific student populations. Further, they say, the new residency requirement may limit educational equity and access, particularly to qualified students in need of flexible learning options.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 learners, making it not only the center of the for-profit higher education universe but the biggest university in the United States by far. Phoenix wasn’t just synonymous with for-profit higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Access, affordability, and free speech will continue to make headlines in higher education. Dr. Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the administration will likely reintroduce the rule in 2024 using a negotiated rulemaking process.

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