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  • Weekend Reading: Creating sustainable careers for the next generation – what can universities do?

    29 June 2024 by Fiona Christie, Emma Pollard and Gill Frigerio

    What does sustainability really mean for the planet, for society, for universities and their students? The word sustainability is used widely in higher education but like many other concepts commonplace in the sector (e.g., employability, quality, student voice), its meaning is a slippery one. It means different things to different…

  • Aligning quality for all the world to see

    27 June 2024 by Alastair Delaney

    The Quality Assurance Agency has today published the new edition of the UK Quality Code. The previous edition was published in 2018. The Quality Code is a key reference point for the HE sector. It articulates the principles of UK higher education for securing academic standards and assuring and enhancing…

  • General Election Briefing 2024

    27 June 2024 by Josh Freeman, Nick Hillman and Rose Stephenson

    This Briefing is for candidates standing in the 2024 General Election and anyone with an interest in higher education policy. It covers the following seven topics:

  • The Higher Education Business Model is Broken: Bridging the Gap to a New Model

    24 June 2024 by Robert Dover

    Higher education is the hidden issue in the current UK general election campaign. One of the few references to the sector has come from the Conservative Party talking point about what they consider to be ‘low value’ or ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees (despite Disney’s success in creating $183 billion of market…

  • Decarbonising Higher Education – The Investment Challenge

    21 June 2024 by Toby Horne

    The carbon cost of higher education Universities and higher education (HE) institutions have an important role to play in meeting carbon reduction targets. In 2021, over one thousand universities and HE colleges worldwide pledged to become completely carbon neutral by 2050, with some institutions aiming to decarbonise as quickly as…

  • Open Access: A Benefit Not a Burden That is Worth the Cost

    20 June 2024 by Stephen Curry, Dorothy Bishop and Martin Paul Eve

    Sometimes it seems as though the debates on open access (OA) move in endless circles. In fact they are slowly spiraling towards their conclusion, just as OA policies are moving, albeit circuitously, towards full implementation. The policy trajectory has not been straight because so many technical, commercial and cultural arguments…