HE Policy OfS seeks views on distributing funding for increased student numbers (OfS, 15/10/2020) The Office for Students is seeking views on its approach to allocating up to £10 million in additional recurrent teaching grant, and up to £10 million in additional capital funding, to support increased student numbers in[…]
Read More »HE Policy OfS announces next steps for the National Student Survey (OfS, 23/09/2020) The Office for Students (OfS) has detailed arrangements for a review of the National Student Survey (NSS). Further Comment: The National Student Survey’s radical roots and branches (WonkHE, 23/09/2020) Keir Starmer has to abandon Corbyn’s promise on student fees (Guardian, 22/09/2020)[…]
Read More »Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI has sent the following invitation to NCUP members and asks that we circulate this to colleagues ‘How do we improve access and participation in higher education in an age of COVID-19?’ on Wednesday 30 September at 2.30pm to 3.45pm COVID-19 is having a radical impact[…]
Read More »Student Recruitment The time is now for Higher Education to evolve student recruitment (UB, 3rd September 2020) The global pandemic has introduced new challenges for recruitment and admissions leaders in higher education. Even before the onset of COVID-19, higher education institutions across the UK and Europe were evolving in response[…]
Read More »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 »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[…]
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