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The Robbins Review – Lessons for the Future by Professor Huw Morris

HEPI

This new piece was kindly authored for HEPI by Huw Morris, who is an Honorary Professor of Tertiary Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and who is currently on secondment from the Welsh Government. The Robbins Review report was published 60 years ago this October.

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Unpacking Financial Disincentives and Driving Beyond the Short-Term Reward Mind-Set

Inside Higher Ed

Psychology explains that humans frequently make decisions guided by short-term rewards rather than long-term rewards, and they are likely to discount delayed events. Therefore, in the postsecondary education arena, institutional decision-makers respond to short-term budgeting rewards.

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Developing Institutional Level AI Policies and Practices: A Framework

WCET Frontiers

The Framework In 2023, Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan conducted research on perceptions and implications of text generative AI technologies in order to develop an AI policy for higher education. The WCET framework adapts Chan’s framework and categorizes institutional AI policy needs in three areas: Governance, Operations, and, Pedagogy.

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What do students think about value for money?

SRHE

Prospective university students were in a similar position, being expected to make a cost-conscious decision about their degree education with limited understanding of their options. Students were recruited through online and on-campus campaigns that were run in the autumn of 2019/20. There was a mix of views on value for money.

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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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Higher ed policies drive layoffs and cuts in the UK, Australia and Canada

The PIE News

Such a projection is particularly pertinent after a report this year found that 80% of higher education providers could fall into deficit if there is a gradual or sudden drop in international students. Australia’s changing policy environment is causing the largest volume of prospective students to reconsider their study abroad plans, with 8.9%

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As microcredentials boom, employers' hiring platforms fumble

Inside Higher Ed

Some applicants enter information about their skills, professional experience and educational achievements into an organization’s hiring platform, including information about traditional college degrees and alternative nondegree credentials. Of those that do, none afford recruiters the opportunity to verify the skills.