SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“We can celebrate today as the day that the loophole was finally closed,” said Barmak Nassirian, vice president of higher education policy for Veterans Education Success, which helped lead the effort to rally public support for the change.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

Expanding access opportunities improves the capacity of higher education systems to accommodate an increasing student population and address the unique challenges faced by disadvantaged students.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Furthermore, the authors contend that integrating employability activities into the curriculum can serve to level the playing field for disadvantaged students. This approach will resonate with universities, as a recent survey by Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and AdvanceHE found 55% of students are in paid employment.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

It was a clear indication of the shift in direction in education policy when the preparations for the new regulatory approach involved consultations, not with the universities but with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the National Audit Office. [2] Low tariff institutions have little option but to do the latter.

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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. As well as helping the HE sector to diversify provision, polytechnics were acclaimed for expanding and diversifying the student population going into higher education ( Scott, 1995 ).

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SRHE

AUGUST 21, 2023

One of the reasons behind these approaches was to ensure they widened participation to more disadvantaged and diverse groups of students who may struggle to have previously entered HE. The scalability of such approaches however is uncertain as applications to the new HEIs grow.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

These students are already faced with many disadvantages. According to The Brookings Institution , a nonprofit public policy organization, first generation college students tend to come from lower-income families and complete school at a lower rate than their peers. Dr. Douglas N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Summer Pell seems to offer particular help to disadvantaged groups. Dr. Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama According to Dr. Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama, this result is to be expected. “If

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HEPI

APRIL 5, 2023

I know higher education policy can be slow but the school pupils applying to higher education when the Augar report came out graduated last summer. That’s how snail-like higher education policy has been in recent years, thanks to all the political turmoil.)

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

” The Crest of a ‘New Wave’ In the strategic plan, the commission notes the proposal is part of a “new wave” of higher education policy focused on value rather than enrollment or degree attainment.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I was given the Fellowship in honour of my work on higher education policy and the-then Chair of QM, Sir Nick Montagu, gave a very nice speech about my career to that date. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution. The Award ceremony was in the middle of the last decade, during a regular graduation ceremony.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is because yet another important body focused on higher education policy – the brilliant Centre for Global Higher Education ( CGHE ) – hosted an event at the UCL Institute of Education last Friday to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Dearing report’s publication.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In an even more economically disadvantaged region Lincoln University recruited 76% of its home intake from its region and retained 71% of its graduating class in the region (Shattock and Horvath, 2023 Ch3). Of course these figures reflect the pre-and post-1992 divide and the league table perceptions of university applicants.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We can also re-use the small boats abandoned by people traffickers to provide free cross-Channel transport for socioeconomically disadvantaged would-be students who prefer to take their chances in Europe. This will further enhance our student support measures.

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HEPI

JULY 31, 2023

In the spring of 2002 I approached Sir Howard Newby, recently appointed Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), where I had been Policy Director for more than 10 years, with the proposition that HEFCE might support me in establishing a think tank devoted to higher education policy analysis.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There is therefore a considerable danger that universities which serve large numbers of disadvantaged students will be less inclined to take risks in admission: this will narrow, rather than widen, access and participation.

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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.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

” Cocco, who also serves as chair of the university committee on educational policy, agreed. ” Physical proximity to on-campus services were deemed important for all students, including those who are first-generation, underrepresented or economically disadvantaged.

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, used the possible Arkansas-Phoenix marriage as a moment to take stock of the state of for-profit higher education. That didn’t really happen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

“This backdrop underscores the urgency of addressing key issues around opportunity, such as increasing college access, addressing college affordability, strengthening pathways to meaningful employment, and ensuring implementation fidelity for current higher education policies and initiatives,” says Jez. Dr. Fred A.

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