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Higher education policymaking in the UK before HEPI

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This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. By the start of the twenty-first century though, that had changed and there was a role for a specialist higher education think tank.

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More financial assistance sought in Indian budget

The PIE News

but only if the education is funded through a loan from a financial institution. As for those pursuing their higher education without the support of a loan, the TCS rate stands at 5%. According to the Reserve Bank of India’s updated rules if the remittance amount exceeds INR 700,000 (approx. last year to Rs2.5m

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India issues draft rules for foreign university branches

Inside Higher Ed

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP).

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Review of The Robbins Report at 60 (HEPI Policy Note 49) by Mike Shattock

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The Government had been alerted to the future funding dilemmas posed by the likely increase in the demand for student places in higher education by the Treasury through the University Grants Committee (UGC) and appointed Lord Robbins as a safe pair of hands (with a strong Treasury background as well as holding a leading university position).

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

SRHE

The latter source grew steadily more important and in 1919 the Treasury established a University Grants Committee (UGC) to rationalise government grants which in the 1920s and 1930s rose to around 30% of individual universities’ expenditure. The system is too large, too bureaucratic and too monocentric.

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Schools need faster emergency response technology. What’s the holdup?

University Business

.”‘ Tragedy can strike a college or university in a matter of moments, and most casualties occur in a three-minute window, according to the FBI. and the most common scenes of student assault are happening in the K12 and higher education space. Hate crime is on the rise in the U.S.,

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. It was to take the form of a block grant, which the recipient university might allocate as it chose.