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Thanks to the Conservative leadership contest, which comes to the end of its tortuous journey later today when the new Prime Minister is announced, there has been high interest in the next Prime Minister’s attitudes towards higher education. That’s generally welcome, but it has unhelpfully taken the spotlight off what the…
This blog was written by Paul Ashwin and Charles Clarke at Lancaster University. It is based on a recent Centre for Global Higher Education seminar: ‘The Politicisation of the Regulation of Higher Education in England: The Case of the Office for Students’ held at the UCL Institute for Education on 25…
This review was written by Daniel Dipper. Daniel is going into his third year of studying History and Politics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and is the current Oxford Union Librarian as well as Magdalen’s undergraduate president. Daniel was educated in a state comprehensive school and is the first in…
TD;LR What is the best answer to this question: why can’t institutions move from the highly regulated Approved (fee cap) category at the Office for Students to the also tightly regulated Approved category and still receive ‘Quality Related’ research funding? For many years, I’ve been screaming into the void (or so…
This blog was kindly written for HEPI by Dr Liz Morrish, who is Visiting Fellow at York St John University and the co-author of HEPI’s work on staff wellbeing, which is available here and here. It is the second review of the book that we have published, with the other one available here.…
By John Cope, former ministerial adviser and board member of the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education. The recent story in the Financial Times that employers ‘lose more than £3.3bn in unspent apprenticeship levy funds’ is the latest in a long line of gloomy stories around the Levy. We have lurched between…
This blog has been kindly contributed to HEPI by Professor Max Lu, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey. Graduation ceremonies and A-Level results are times to take stock, celebrate achievements and envisage the future. During six wonderful recent days of undergraduate graduation ceremonies at the University of Surrey,…
Steven Jones, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Manchester, is one of the nicest people I have met in our sector. As I saw first-hand when he was a staff governor of his institution, where I am a lay governor, Professor Jones knows how to deliver effective change without…
This blog was kindly provided by Professor Susan Lea, Vice Chancellor, University of Hull. We have been talking about the financial viability of higher education providers for some time. In 2019, headlines declared that ‘Britain may soon have a bankrupt university’ and discussion raged as to whether the Government would allow…
This blog was kindly provided by Tom Morgan, a lawyer specialising in the research and innovation sector at CMS. Under the National Security and Investment Act, which came into force earlier this year, the Government has two powers that particularly affect the research sector: The first is the power to intervene in…