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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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Radical proposals in leader’s conference speech

SRHE

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. Just the best education system in the Western world. This will further enhance our student support measures.

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

Inside Higher Ed

” 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. “Humanities majors want jobs, too.”

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

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Investment in human capital has been mostly ignored. 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).

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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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