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Radical proposals in leader’s conference speech

SRHE

Universities are overcrowded, because too many students want to be in higher education. The Labour government pursued the false dream of 50 per cent of children going to university … one of the great mistakes of the last 30 years. The result is a project whose costs have more than doubled, which has been repeatedly delayed.

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

Inside Higher Ed

Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, said that given the state’s declining higher ed enrollment, shortage of teachers and health-care workers , and a budget crisis caused by decades of state disinvestment , placing a numeric value on degree programs seems like a low priority.

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

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by Michael Shattock From decentralised to centralised Until 1919 UK universities, except Oxbridge and Durham, were primarily civic institutions created by wealthy citizens and governed by councils strongly represented by the founders and by local authorities and the local industrial community.

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University of California system bans fully online degrees

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The University of California system has never had any fully online undergraduate degree programs at any of its 10 campuses. That loophole was closed this month when the University of California Academic Senate approved Senate Regulations 610 and 630, which instituted an undergraduate residency requirement.

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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. Lessons from the past.