The University of East Anglia evaluated three approaches to measuring learning gain. What did they find?
The University of East Anglia’s (UEA’s) HEFCE funded learning gain pilot project was carried out in partnership with City College Norwich. The project evaluated three approaches to measuring learning gain, and this is a brief roundup of the findings. More...

The ‘Prevent duty’ which higher education providers are required to follow has been controversial, but the arguments used against it are largely based on myths and misunderstanding.
The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (CTSA) has aroused great controversy by imposing a legal duty upon schools, universities, the NHS and other institutions to ‘have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’ (the ‘Prevent duty’). However, in an article published in the January 2018 issue of Public Law, we argue that the campaign against the Act and the duty in higher education rests largely upon myths, six of which are particularly prevalent. More...

The KEF metrics system will provide more information for the public and businesses on the performance of universities in knowledge exchange – how they share knowledge, expertise and other assets for the benefit of the economy and society. The aim is to provide regularly updated data that enables fair comparison between institutions’ performance in knowledge exchange. More...