Earlier this week, I spoke to a group of students at the University of Oxford on how I ended up working in education policy. There was high demand for the session, so I am posting the remarks here in case other people seeking policymaking roles are interested in what I said. Please forgive the excessively personal nature of the remarks, which is unavoidable given the theme. More...
Following the proposals outlined in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Green Paper on Industrial Strategy, the Government has been looking at ways to help deepen cooperation between universities and leverage research council laboratories to drive local growth. More...
Fixing the broken market in part-time study: Open University says part-time students ‘learning while earning’ need direct funding
Separate and direct funding for part-time higher education students and providers to reduce the cost of study in England is essential if the UK Government is serious about developing the skills the country needs, argues Peter Horrocks, Vice-Chancellor of The Open University, in a report published on the website of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI). More...
A new HEPI report How much is too much? Cross-subsidies from teaching to research in British universities (HEPI Report 100) by Vicky Olive considers the scale and sustainability of university cross-subsidies and calls on Philip Hammond to boost research and development funding in the Budget. More...
Ministers no doubt hope their legislation has put the most tricky contemporary higher education issues to bed. For those serving in alternative providers, the new world is clearer and largely preferable to the old one – and presumably much better than it would be under a Corbyn-led Government committed to a new National Education Service. More...
After the resignation of Unizin's CEO (Amin Qazi) and COO (Robin Littleworth) that we reported last week, we can confirm that the key issue was a change in direction for the consortium driven by the board of directors. More...
Three and a half years after its formation, Unizin is facing its biggest challenge. Now that the consortium is dealing with contract renewals (membership based on three-year agreements), and now that it is a standalone organization and not wrapped under Internet2, Unizin will face the future without its top management. More...
Moodle News responded to our recent coverage regarding the platform’s declining market share by pushing back hard with an article that simultaneously insinuates bias on our part and attempts to use our numbers to draw the opposite conclusions from the ones that we have put forward. This presented us with something of a dilemma. More...
In the week prior to the OpenEd conference, Cengage Learning made a fairly big announcement with OpenNow, a "suite of digital products for general education courses with open educational resources (OER) content". In an article from Inside Higher Education, I noted that this news was not out of the blue. More...
While at EDUCAUSE last week, we heard from several sources that the IMS is walking away from LTI 2.0. I’m not sure what term the organization is using to characterize what they’re doing; there’s nothing on the public web site that I can find at the moment. More...
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