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Business Intelligence: A round-up of the week in HE: 22nd May 2020

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[…]

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Business Intelligence: A round-up of the week in HE: 15th May 2020

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[…]

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International Year of the Nurse and Midwife

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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Business Intelligence: A round-up of the week in HE: 7th May 2020

HE Policy Provider guide to coronavirus (OfS, 04/05/2020) Financial questions, unconditional offers, and potential sanctions. Further Comment: Consultation on new regulatory condition (OfS, 04/05/2020) Regulator warns of penalties for recruitment practices that undermine student interests and stability of higher education (OfS, 04/05/2020) Government support package for universities and students (OfS,[…]

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Business Intelligence: A round-up of the week in HE: 24th April 2020

HE Policy OfS subjective fines proposal could cause legal disputes for the sector (THE, 18/04/2020) The approach to monetary penalties proposed by the UK’s Office for Students risks penalising well-run institutions Student Numbers, Admissions, and UCAS Further extension to moratorium on unconditional offer-making – Office for Students (OfS, 18/04/2020) This[…]

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Business Intelligence: A round-up of the week in HE: 3rd April 2020

HE Policy The government must protect universities in this crisis or job cuts will follow (Guardian, 03/04/2020) Staff in universities and colleges are already losing their jobs due to coronavirus – that’s why we need funding guarantees UCU calls on government to end ‘huge financial uncertainty’ for universities (UB, 02/04/2020)[…]

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Business Intelligence: A round-up of the week in HE: 17th April 2020

HE Policy So long, and thanks for all the TEF? (WonkHE, 15/04/2020) It seems that the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (the TEF) is now without a date for 2021. Student Numbers, Admissions, and Standards Predicted grades appeal system is not fair, ex-Ucas chief says as she warns it[…]

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Report on the NCUP 2020 AGM and annual Education Lecture

This year’s AGM was held on 21 February at the Gordon Museum of Pathology, Guy’s Campus, Kings College, London, and featured a lecture by Professor Stephen Barber, titled: ‘What happens after Brexit?’ Stephen Barber is Professor of Global Affairs and Assistant Dean for Programmes, Business and Management, Regents University, London[…]

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Winners of NCUP Bursaries for Annual Education Lecture and AGM, 21 February 2020

Ms Leila Benseddick  (Faculty of Arts Science and Technology, University of Northampton) “The Impact of Students’ Future Imagined Identities on Their English Language Learning in an EFL Context: The Case of English for Law” Ms Ruth Jerotich Kiplagat (Business- Regents University ) “Development in Agriculture and Technology : Artificial Intelligence and policy”[…]

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Winners of NCUP Travel Awards Announced

The NCUP has funded 4 travel awards each of £200 to help young researchers attend the 16th Annual University of Brescia/King’s College London Colloquium, which will take place in Salo, Lake Garda, Italy from 7 – 9 May 2020. The topics for the colloquium are Student Mental Health and Dental[…]

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