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The latest edition of Higher Education Policy (HEP) has just been released and is a special edition entitled Early Career Researchers and Changing Working Conditions in Academia.

Contents (Special Edition)

• Introduction: Early Career Researchers and Changing Working Conditions in Academia - Veronika Wöhrer;
• Power at the Interfaces: The Contested Orderings of Academic Presents and Futures in a Social Science Department – Tereza Stöckelová; full text of this article is freely available here
• Supervision and Early Career Work Experiences of Estonian Humanities Researchers Under the Conditions of Project-based Funding – Jaana Eigi, Pille Põiklik, Endla Lõhkivi and Katrin Velbaum;
• To Stay or to Go? Narratives of Early-Stage Sociologists about Persisting in Academia – Veronika Wöhrer;
• Keep on Movin’? Research Mobility’s Meanings for Italian Early-Stage Researchers - Chiara Carrozza and Sara Minucci;

Other Articles

• Setting Policy Agenda for the Social Dimension of the Bologna Process – Yasemin Yagci;
• Inclusion of Women Academics into American Universities: Analysis of Women Status Reports - Xuhong Su and Monica Gaughan. More...

A new £22 million scheme involving over 200 higher education institutions and reaching 4,300 secondary schools and colleges aims to encourage more young people into higher education.
The National Networks for Collaborative Outreach (NNCO) will deliver a nationally co-ordinated approach to working with schools, universities and colleges to help people access higher education [Note 1].   Local and regional providers of higher education have come together to form the networks, ensuring comprehensive coverage across England.
Thirty-five local networks will cover the whole of England. Each network will appoint a single point of contact to help teachers and advisers find out about higher education outreach activity in their area and to provide general advice about progression into higher education. Three more networks will offer advice and support to specific groups of students at national level, including older learners wishing to continue or return to study and care leavers.
The local networks will host web-sites with information about outreach activity, and signpost other information to support schools and colleges as they prepare their students for higher education.
The networks are funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and managed by HEFCE. More...

As part of our work to develop evidence to underpin policy, HEFCE gathered new evidence to support our response to the Government’s capital consultation. This evidence was developed with the input and advice of JM Consulting Ltd, building on its 2006 report on the state of capital infrastructure in UK higher education institutions [Note 5]. The new evidence includes an update of the tables from the 2006 report, a summary report on institutional case studies undertaken by Deloitte earlier in 2014, and a report on a joint HEFCE-Universities UK survey of higher education institutions undertaken earlier in 2014. These new pieces of evidence can be found below, and their main findings are reflected in our response to the consultation. More...