The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Keir Starmer should revitalise Sure Start, focus on children’s happiness – and give a crucial boost to further education Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its manifesto Children became unhappier in the past decade, according to the annual Good Childhood report. Nothing else.

Arts And Sciences 104

Arts And Sciences Educational Systems Further Education Education 104

HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’.

Institution 62

Institution Arts And Sciences Further Education Higher Education 62

HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

The knockon consequences of these changes (which are often loosely packaged as ‘marketisation’) have had at times stretched to breaking point the higher education system in the UK, as evidenced by recent industrial disputes, negative newspaper headlines over a range of topics and local conflicts around issues such as housing.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Education Further Education Model 52

HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

Creating a parity of esteem between Further Education and Higher Education, or between ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’, is often suggested as a good idea to improve skills shortages, achieve levelling up and promote economic growth. How to do it? There isn’t a singular model and it’s unlikely that one would work.

Policy 72

Policy Model Achievement Institution 72

HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

T his post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Education Degree Department 52

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Michael Meranze, a professor of history at UCLA who has written about the strike, told Inside Higher Ed , “There is no question that the strike has had a real effect on instruction and thereby on the undergraduates. ” North said that the university had significant notice of the possible strike “and chose to do nothing.”

Faculty 98

Faculty Arts And Sciences Schooling Guidance 98

SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

At the end of the twentieth century the UGC was replaced first, briefly, by a single Funding Council and then, under the Further Education and Research Act (1992) by four separate Funding Councils for the nations of the UK, with the Higher Education Funding Council for England taking over the task for England.

Allocate 52

Allocate Higher Education Arts And Sciences Degree 52