HEPI

OCTOBER 23, 2023

He is also a former special and political advisor and a former civil servant. And at the recent Labour Party Conference, Keir Starmer and Bridget Philipson proposed new ‘technical excellence’ institutions – to drive their ‘missions’ and particularly, national economic growth.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Doing them all justice is especially hard given the point we are at in the political cycle: since last Tuesday , the next general election must be less than two years away. But I hope you feel I have covered a range of funding, regulatory and political concerns facing us. You have given me a lengthy list of issues to cover.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

The proposed legislation aims to enforce ‘minimum service levels’ in six key public services Starmer says voters looked at Labour again in 2022. And he felt, “for the first time in a while that we could return their gaze with confidence”. But Labour must not rest on its laurels.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

Keir Starmer says sluggish economy has driven up prices and is holding back students and apprentices UK growth will be the slowest in the G7 in 2024, Labour analysis of the latest economic forecasts shows, as Keir Starmer said that the economic climate would prevent him from going to university today.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

In today’s newsletter: Rishi Sunak has a plan to tackle so-called ‘rip-off’ degrees – but what is the new policy, and how will it work? Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition Good morning.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Article says Commons could bypass the parliamentary standards machinery after Labour leader says MP should be forced out Starmer says there is a massive mismatch between what the government is saying about how things are going well with the economy, and the lived experience of people.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Nursery education is in crisis, schools and FE colleges neglected. Only by funding these properly will Labour improve standards There’s been a lot less hoo-ha about Labour’s retreat on abolishing tuition fees than some expected.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 20, 2023

Labour leader advised to create a fairer system in the form of maintenance grants Keir Starmer is being urged by shadow cabinet figures to replace tuition fees in England with a graduate tax, amid growing concern that the finances of universities are becoming unsustainable under the current system.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2022

So Keir Starmer’s pledge to remove the charitable status of private schools, and requiring them to charge VAT on fees, is a welcome move. Just 7% of children attend private schools.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

The Labour leader told the BBC on Tuesday he was looking at alternative ideas for funding the higher education sector and wanted to “move on” from the pledge he made as a leadership candidate to scrap fees.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

As the state of education comes under scrutiny, Labour’s leader faces some hard choices over the promises he made in 2020 It’s that time of year when the kids have just gone back to school, and every working parent who just scraped through the Christmas holidays breathes a sigh of relief. But not, perhaps, for long.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In a closing members’ discussion, we noted that higher education is connected to all of the big political topics of our moment, but rarely seems to be acknowledged by politicians as such. A new approach to politics and democracy. Those policies that did get a mention were again framed in terms of economic growth.

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HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2024

At least, that is what David Cameron did before 2010 and Keir Starmer has done more recently. It is not just the level of tuition fees or the amount of each institution’s income that should be politically salient, however. Yet, oddly, higher education funding seems to have slipped down the order of political priorities.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 21, 2023

Young adults stranded in the family home have been abandoned by politicians who view them as an afterthought A huge social shift is happening that has barely been noticed, let alone understood. million of them , up nearly 15% on the figure for 2011.

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