By Paul Greatrix. Gordon McKenzie, writing here on Wonkhe, noted that the Green Paper proposals gave the shiny new Office for Students responsibility for quality assurance and the new Teaching Excellence Framework but a key question remained:

should the Office for Students carry out these functions itself or have the power to contract them out to separate bodies? This question places the future of QAA, HESA and perhaps HEA, all of them sector owned bodies, in the balance. The Green Paper is suitably tentative, recognising the “benefits of maintaining a co-regulated approach, the role that other bodies play in supporting wider decisions, for example in providing educational oversight on Tier 4 licence applications, and the UK-wide role”.

A lot of the discussion on the Office for Students (OfS) has focused on what Question 18 in the BIS consultation describes as the “higher education architecture”. More...

Education Minister Wu Se-hwa said Wednesday that he is happy to see the planned merger between National Yang-Ming University and National Chiao Tung University and believes it could expand their operational scale and enhance their international competitiveness. More...

By Goldie Blumenstyk. The Wall Street swagger of for-profit college companies — so visible just five years ago — looks a lot more like a limp at the dawn of 2016. More...

By Edoardo Campanella. Nine universities across the UK will form a new PETRAS Internet of Things (IoT) Research Hub, with the aim of furthering the technology and exploring some of its key issues. More...

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