August seems as good a time as any to put up something we have been meaning to post for a while: the text of Anthony Crosland’s Woolwich Polytechnic speech of 27th April 1965. More...
Should student loan defaulters be treated like tax evaders and benefit fraudsters?: New HEPI study of higher education in New Zealand and its lessons for the UK
HEPI is today publishing a major comparative study entitled Higher Education in New Zealand: What might the UK learn? It has been written by Sam Cannicott, an education expert who until recently worked at Regent’s University London and who now works for Statistics New Zealand. More...
New Zealand has a population of under 4.5 million and only eight universities. Despite the difference in scale, the UK could still learn from the way in which New Zealand has approached higher education challenges. More...
In the UK, it has been phenomenally difficult to get good quality independent higher education institutions off the ground but simultaneously too easy to run ones of questionable quality. More...
What does the future hold for universities? The University of Buckingham is hosting the UK’s first Higher Education Festival covering all issues facing the sector. More...
No one likes it when the cost of something goes up, especially when it goes up after agreeing to purchase it. The Government’s consultation on the freeze met strong opposition – there were 410 negative responses and 26 positive ones. More...
The head of steam has finally blown the gasket. The pressure that had been mounting for several years to plonk higher education policy back alongside other education matters within Whitehall has triumphed. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is dead; long live the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. More...
By Alex Usher. A new book on innovation policy came out this summer from a guy by the name of Mark Zachary Taylor, who teaches at Georgia State. The book is called The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries are Better Than Others at Science and Technology and to my mind it should be required reading for anyone interested in following Canada’s innovation debate. More...
By Alex Usher. There was an interesting piece in the National Post last week about unemployed professionals in the Alberta oil and gas industry. In amidst the occasional whine about the oil industry being so unloved by the rest Canada, there is a serious article about what happens to people in specialized professions when the economic tide swings away from that profession. More...
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