HE Policy 30 things we learned from the OfS board papers for July 2020 (WonkHE, 06/08/2020) The Office for Students has published board papers for July 2020, and David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have had a read so you don’t have to. Greening: English policy agenda will ‘level down’ opportunity[…]
Read More »HE Policy Registration decisions (July 2020) (27/07/2020) The Office for Students has refused the registration applications of AWA Business School Limited, Azores Properties Ltd (trading as Xcel College), ForMission Ltd and UK Advanced Technical Academy following a rigorous process of assessment and evaluation. OfS plans new regulations on free speech and[…]
Read More »The HEPI website announces publication of a Landmark report on the last decade of PGR education and an indication of what is to come after COVID-19: hepi.ac.uk/2020/05/14/landmark-report-on-the-last-decade-of-uk-postgraduate-education-provides-an-indication-of-what-is-to-come-after-covid-19/. There is also a very good ‘HEPI Analytical Report’, produced by Dr Ginevra House. Members who wish to obtain copies might email Past[…]
Read More »Next Term Should I go to university this year? (BBC, 19/06/2020) The deadline for students to decide whether or not to accept university offers for the new academic year passed on Thursday. Uni deadline day: ‘Covid changed my whole future’ (BBC, 18/06/2020) Video lectures and no freshers’ week make for[…]
Read More »HE Policy Student and consumer protection (OfS, 10/06/2020) The OfS has published guidance for registered providers about how we will approach the regulation of student protection during the period of disruption resulting from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Letter to the Education Select Committee (29 May 2020) (OfS, 11/06/2020) The letter provides information[…]
Read More »HE Policy Row over cap on English students at Scottish universities (BBC, 02/06/2020) The UK government is to impose “student number controls” to prevent “over-recruitment” by some institutions. University cap ‘won’t see English student raid’ (BBC, 02/06/2020) English universities will not be able to “raid” Welsh institutions for students under UK government[…]
Read More »HE Policy ‘Concern’ at English university student cap plan (BBC, 29/05/2020) “Deep concern” has been raised over plans to cap English student numbers at Welsh universities in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Philip Augar: ‘Negative grants’ could target ‘over-supplied courses’ (THE, 26/05/2020) With £7,500 tuition fees off the agenda, new strategies to[…]
Read More »HE Policy Outcomes based regulation doesn’t work in a pandemic. Or a select committee. (WonkHE, 18/05/2020) It’s not just Grant Shapps who wants to know more about higher education in the autumn. Jim Dickinson watches a whole committee of MPs try to get answers from the Office for Students. Students ‘must[…]
Read More »HE Policy Analysis of level 6 and 7 apprenticeships – Office for Students (OfS, 13/05/2020) This report highlights key changes in the apprenticeship landscape since 2016-17 at levels 6 and 7. Full tuition for online courses questioned (PIE, 11/05/2020) Full tuition will be charged if UK unis remain closed and[…]
Read More »2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife and 12 May 2020 was International Nurses Day. The International Council of Nurses has produced two important reports that are free to download: State of the World’s Nursing Report – 2020 Nurses a Voice to Lead: Nursing the World to[…]
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