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Deprivation data: Introducing a new UK-wide area-based measure

SRHE

In this first piece we begin with a focus on our work relating to socioeconomic disadvantage. The uses of data on deprivation in higher education One of the ways in which providers seek to improve equality of opportunity in education is through outreach activity.

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

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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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

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The debate has been given renewed impetus with the publication of a heavyweight report Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for intervention (Stansbury et al , 2023) published by Harvard University and Kings College, London. Investment in human capital has been mostly ignored.

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University of California system bans fully online degrees

Inside Higher Ed

For this reason, colleges often identify program experiences that align with their values and target specific student populations. Schumann wrote in her capacity as chair of the system’s University Committee on Research Policy to Cochran during the deliberation.

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Preparing for Government again: how the higher education sector needs to prepare for the next Labour administration

HEPI

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.