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As the focus of the conference season for HE has been fees, loans and debt, we have a slightly delayed policy update with a catch up on this complicated issue, with a few hints of other things to come in our regular update at the end of the week. Discussions about student finance have dominated… Read more » about HE policy update w/e 6th October (belated)
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Non-Executive Board On Thursday Jo Johnson announced the non-executive members of the UKRI Board. Sir John Kingman (Chair of UKRI) is the Legal and General Group Chairman and Former Second Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury Fiona Driscoll (UKRI Audit Committee Chair) is Chair of the Audit Committee of Nuffield Health… Read more » about BU HE policy update w/e 29th September 2017
Apologies for cross posting. ==== Dear colleagues, HEFCE is seeking to appoint academics, students and experts as panel members and assessors for TEF Year Three and the subject level pilot. We welcome a range of diverse applications from staff and students who wish to take part. This is an opportunity to get involved… Read more » about TEF: academics, students and experts needed…
Dear colleagues, apologies for cross posting: ========= Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue of American Behavioral Scientist (1.311 Impact Factor) on QUALITATIVE APPROACHES TO POLICY ANALYSIS & RESEARCH Editors: Monica Reid Kerrigan, Rowan University, and Ane Turner Johnson, Rowan University Abstracts Due: December 1, 2017 • Full Manuscript Due: May 1, 2018 The purpose of… Read more » about Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue: Qualitative Approaches to Policy Analysis & Research
Where next for widening participation and fair access? HEPI Breakfast Seminar in partnership with Brightside Thursday 12th October 8.20am to 10.30am One Birdcage Walk, Westminster SW1 HEPI and Brightside are working in partnership to bring together key experts on widening participation to see what more can be done to improve social mobility. Following publication over the… Read more » about HEPI Breakfast Seminar 12th October
Fees debate Last week started with the Sunday Times headline suggesting that the government would reduce tuition fees to £7500 and then the debate that has been continuing all summer boiled over briefly. You can read more about it on Wonkhe here. Headline grabbing policies on tuition fees are apparently fed by the view that… Read more » about HE Policy update w/e 22nd September 2017
REF 2021 As we noted last week, on 1st September 2017 HEFCE published the initial decisions on REF 2021. This does not include decisions regarding submitting staff, output portability or the eligibility of institutions to participate in the REF. There is another consultation on those issues and BU’s response is being prepared by RKEO –… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 15th September
REF 2021 On 1st September 2017 HEFCE published the initial decisions on REF 2021. This does not include decisions regarding submitting staff, output portability or the eligibility of institutions to participate in the REF. There is another consultation on those issues and BU’s response is being prepared by RKEO – please contact Julie Northam if… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 8th September 2017
We continue our series of summer updates focussing on themes rather than news with a look at learning gain. We have updates on the Industrial Strategy Bell review of Life Sciences, and an update on the TEF from UUK. Learning Gain Learning gain has become a potential hot topic for universities over the last year… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 1st September 2017
Immigration, International Students and Brexit The government have commissioned a series of assessments and reviews of the impact of immigration policy and Brexit via the Migration Advisory Committee: Call for evidence and briefing note: EEA-workers in the UK labour market – we will be responding on the HE questions via UCEA and UUK and we… Read more » about HE Policy Update w/e 25th August 2017
