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New assessment report from the Office for Students

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Assessment and Feedback toolkit

A publication this month from the Office for Students (OfS) reports on assessment practices in relation to spelling, punctuation and grammar. This was partly informed by reports from employers that graduates were not meeting their expectations of proficiency in literacy skills. https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/media/7c292a54-015d-4638-8c30-18e0eba00bf3/assessment-practices-in-english-higher-education-providers-ofs.pdf According to the report (paragraph 7b),  “Accurate and effective spelling, punctuation and grammar… Read more » about New assessment report from the Office for Students

HE Policy update for the w/e 8th June 2018

Posted . Filed under Education, employability, Fair access, HE Students, News, Policy, Student, Teaching and Learning, TEF, Widening participation.

HEPI Student Experience Survey The  Higher Education Policy Institute  (HEPI) and  Advance HE  have published a joint  report on student academic experience.  The report was launched at the annual HEPI conference and Sam Gyimah gave the keynote address. The report includes a lot of insight and is worth looking at – there are some new questions… Read more » about HE Policy update for the w/e 8th June 2018

Succeeding with non-traditional learners in HE: a workshop recap

Posted . Filed under Case Studies Outside BU, Conference Report, HE Students, Widening participation.

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Apologies for cross posting: An extract from the blog on Continuing Access and Education featuring BUs own Shell Morgan. Shell is the Associate Dean for the Student Experience with the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University: Michelle Morgan (Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Student Experience at Bournemouth University)–stepping in for Liz Thomas–gave an… Read more » about Succeeding with non-traditional learners in HE: a workshop recap

HE policy update for the w/e 18th May 2018

Posted . Filed under Digital skills, employability, Equality and Diversity, EU, Events and workshops, Funding Stream, HE Students, News, Policy, Postgraduate student, Student.

Summit on BME Leadership in HE This event was hosted by AdvanceHE, the new agency that was formed recently to include the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, the Higher Education Academy and the Equality Challenge Unit. Wonkhe have pointed out that: “So far only 45 out of 167 higher education institutions have signed the Advance… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 18th May 2018

HE policy update for the w/e 27th April 2018

Posted . Filed under Creativity, Digital skills, Education, employability, Fair access, Funding Stream, HE Students, Innovation, News, Policy, Research, Student, Widening participation.

HE review deadline approaches – the latest on fees and funding Thank you to the staff and students who responded to the HE review survey that we ran before and after Easter, we are preparing our response and will use the data from the survey to inform it. We asked respondents for their top 3… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 27th April 2018

HE policy update for the w/e 26th January 2018

Posted . Filed under Education, employability, Equality and Diversity, EU, Fair access, HE Students, Innovation, News, Policy, Research, Student, Widening participation.

It’s been a busy bee week. We have oodles of news for you, feel free to scan through and find the sections that are most interesting to you! Ministerial update The new Universities Minister, Sam Gyimah, has been more active this week. The HE Review The much heralded and still elusive HE Review was a… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 26th January 2018

HE policy update for the w/e 12th January 2018

Posted . Filed under Education, employability, Fair access, HE Students, News, Policy, Student, TEF, Widening participation.

Cabinet Reshuffle Out with the old and in with the new…the cabinet reshuffle this week brings changes for HE. Goodbye to Jo Johnson as he departs from the Universities Minister role to become Minister of State for Transport and Minister for London. Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, reflects on Johnson’s legacy in the Times Higher,… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 12th January 2018

HE policy update for the w/e 5th January 2018

Posted . Filed under Equality and Diversity, EU, Fair access, Funding Stream, HE Students, News, Policy, REF2021, Student, Widening participation.

Welcome to the first policy update of 2018!  Parliament is in recess until Monday 8th so there has been less activity this week. Nevertheless, here is your slimline summary of the activity since our last update. Office for Students The Office for Students (OfS) officially came into existence this week. The final 6 members of… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 5th January 2018