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17 janvier 2020

A welcome argument, but only half of the argument

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A key recommendation is to adopt the Scottish approach of each programme in every institution including an intake quota at lower grades reserved for applicants from the most deprived areas. This recognises that deprivation generally depresses academic attainment and that these applicants are still likely to succeed with the right support and teaching. More...

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17 janvier 2020

The Office for Students respond to ‘Social mobility and elite universities’

This is a topic that has concerned governments involving three different parties over the last two decades. All have sought not only to increase participation, but also to improve fair access to those universities with the highest academic entry requirements. As many of the responses to the HEPI report have highlighted, though, a successful higher education sector must be one that offers fair and equal access to different types of courses, experiences and outcomes. And for this to work for all students, it cannot be confined to direct entry from school. More...

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17 janvier 2020

Widening Participation: an agenda for the 2020s

2019 has been a year of high political drama, unmatched by substantive policy change. Brexit has dominated, with domestic departments caught in a holding pattern. The Augar commission was launched by the last Prime Minister to review post-18 education, but has barely been mentioned by the current one. Tuition fees may have resonated little in this election, but the issues Augar was set up to address have not gone away. More...

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17 janvier 2020

So did students have any impact on the election?

Many people thought students could boost the election results for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. Over time, as the proper academic studies of the election drip out, we will come to know for certain if that happened or not. More...

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17 janvier 2020

The best for universities over the next few years is not good

There is a choice: a numbers cap or a cap on aggregate higher education spend. A Secretary of State for Education convinced of the value of a university education would prefer the latter. In doing this, he or she would also make cost reductions – or the realisation of economies of scale – universities’ business. Neatly, if a cap on total higher education costs did lead to a decline in student numbers, it would be universities’ responsibility. More...

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17 janvier 2020

What is the future for university representation under the Conservatives?

As many UK universities are based in our cities this can have a skewed representation when it comes to higher education matters in the House of Commons. As has been discussed by HEPI on previous occasions, if a politician has a university in their constituency or very nearby this can help them understand the modern challenges of a university rather than relying on personal anecdote from 30 years ago. More...

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17 janvier 2020

We need to talk about free speech again. Sorry.

Readers of this fabulous website will generally think, as I do, that the free speech ‘crisis’ is overblown. They will sigh and tut, as I do, when universities are described as ‘left-wing madrassas’ by commentators with malign intentions. They will find it a little hypocritical, as I do, when students who protest controversial speakers are criticised for expressing their free speech. But there is a free speech problem. More...

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17 janvier 2020

Slipping through the net? Study abroad and student wellbeing.

Time abroad is an obligatory feature of most Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) and MFL Joint Honours courses, offering students real-world opportunities for foreign language usage, often in a professional environment, and developing intercultural skills through practice. Students on a range of non-MFL courses may also have opportunities to spend a year, term or vacation period abroad to enhance their studies. Spending time in another country and culture in this way is invaluable – it increases the economic value and personal development aspects of language study, and/or can provide students with specific subject-related or career-related opportunities. More...

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17 janvier 2020

The mystery of the missing statistic

Each year Ofqual publishes over 5,000 statistics on challenges and reviews of GCSE, AS and A level grades. But the most important – those that measure the reliability of the awarded grades, analysed by subject, by level and by exam board – are nowhere to be seen. More...

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17 janvier 2020

Student residence in England: A world unto itself

Higher education is all too often used as if it is synonymous with university, in spite of the fact that higher education is also offered in 86% of the 257 colleges of further education in England and higher education makes up almost 20 per cent of teaching in FE colleges in Scotland. University is therefore also equated with something more nebulous and abstract – ‘university life’. More...

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