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Fees, funding and the HE review Sam Gyimah responded to a parliamentary question quashing the notion that UK students might be able to access student loans to study in international destinations. THAT interview: Greening on maintenance grants & fees – Justine Greening (former Secretary of State for Education) made big news this week during her… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 2nd February 2018
The Department of Education have been very busy preparing many, many pages of consultation for us – and then have downplayed it by talking about freedom of speech (and not much else). BU’s TEF result is in the press. And universities generated £95 billion of gross output in the economy in 2014-15 OfS Regulation –… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/c 20th October 2017
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
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
