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

SRHE

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. In this first piece we begin with a focus on our work relating to socioeconomic disadvantage.

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

SRHE

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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Radical proposals in leader’s conference speech

SRHE

At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. We committed to a second phase of the project (HS2) through legislation in the Higher Education and Research Act in 2017. Just the best education system in the Western world.

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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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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.

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University of California system bans fully online degrees

Inside Higher Ed

” On preferences for college modality For students to have a meaningful educational experience, they should be “on campus interacting with their instructors and fellow students in person,” according to John Kim, associate professor of German, Japanese and comparative literature at UC Riverside.

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