…research is funded is “critical” at a time when public spending is under scrutiny. “Previous funding decisions have been right to seek out and fund the teams doing leading research rather than picking winners at an institutional level,” he said. The best way to maintain the UK’s global standing as a research nation is to continue funding excellence “wherever it is found”, he argued. Read our full statement and coverage of Alliance universities’s R…
…putation of UK higher education” when higher education was becoming more global, she said. Regulation must be “fit for purpose and suitable for a rapidly changing world”, she added, saying the report “provides some possible solutions”. Read the full article here….
…d of quality assurance system is going to be fit for this more complex new world of expanding higher education. Quality assurance does, and should, sit within a broader framework for regulation of providers. This paper primarily focuses on quality assurance rather than the wider regulatory system. We have set out nine recommendations for the future of the quality assurance system in England. Image by Dave Herholz An HE Bill should be introduced as…
…mission as ‘both/and’, running within and alongside excellent teaching and world-class research. The report also debunks the myth that economic growth is geographical and argues that funding should be allocated by opportunity rather than simply by postcode. Local Enterprise Partnerships and their universities would then team up with one another in novel ways that align their distinctiveness with opportunity, so in this way, we leverage the natural…
…nd lively debate about the future of higher education. We also held a constructive workshop at Labour Party Conference with a number of key Labour figures including Shabana Mahmood MP, Adrian Bailey MP and Lord Stevenson. Professor Steve West used the conferences to promote university_vision and stressed that the sector needs to pull together to create its own vision for the future. He said the sector was often responsive to decisions by governmen…
…ducation. We must identify the correct balance of contribution between the individual and the state in the forthcoming white paper on higher education. This underlying principle will have significant consequences for the future of our world-class public higher-education system, and must not be submerged by the immediate crisis in the public finances. Professor Janet Beer Chair of University Alliance and vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University…
…eems to know what he is talking about and he doesn’t pander to people. Youngsters like him because he has a cool name that brings to mind an action movie star; oldies are keen because, well, because he’s one of them. But the university world is fast falling out of love with the Business Secretary, who has responsibility for higher education. That’s because of his use of the “T” word – in other words, his mention of a graduate tax to replace top-up…
Every university will be asked to state how they prepare students for the world of work by David Willetts’ opening salvo to improve transparency in the sector. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is to write to institutions asking them to produce Graduate Employability Statements explaining how they support students in areas such as careers guidance and work placements, the universities minister announced. Mr Willetts said it was the…
…In the university world, differences of opinion are nothing new. But the outcome of this one might just change the character of higher education itself. Universities are at odds over the future of postgraduate study, with a Government review on the subject, due to report in the spring, setting up sharply diverging views on how PhDs should be funded just as finances for the sector as a whole come under huge pressure. Read the full article….
…students, hopes to take the capital by storm with its new base round the corner from the Business Design Centre. “Our fashion school has a great reputation but it remains the case in fashion that it is key to have a presence in one of the world’s fashion cities,” says the vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Wathey. “For a while we had had our annual fashion show in London as well as the North-east but this will give us a footprint near the centre of…