{"id":4318,"date":"2016-11-14T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T10:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2016-11-14T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T10:02:31","slug":"4318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2016\/11\/14\/4318\/","title":{"rendered":"HE policy update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colleagues, please see below the recent policy update from Jane Forster,\u00a0touching on Student Finance; International Students and Brexit; Fair Access and Progression, as well as other news:<\/p>\n<p>Lots of interesting developments in the UK last week while there has been a rather distracting international politics story abroad.<\/p>\n<p><u>Student finance<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government have launched two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/more-support-planned-for-part-time-and-doctoral-degree-students\" target=\"_blank\">new consultation<\/a>s, one on loans for PGRs and another on maintenance loans for part-time students \u2013 both new and welcome developments \u2013 we will be preparing a response and I\u2019ll link to the detailed questions next week for those interested in contributing.\u00a0 The deadline is 16 December.<sup><br \/>\n<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Wonkhe also report that \u201cProfessor Ian Cumming, chief executive of Health Education England, has warned that universities and trusts would be responsible for funding the growing number of places on nursing training courses from 2018. The government ended the cap on nursing places by replacing nursing bursaries with student loans earlier this year, and Cumming predicts that the number of students applying for places on nursing courses will continue to rise. HEE has a \u2018flat-cash\u2019 level to fund placements within the NHS. However he says that money to fund extra places would \u201ceither be a deal with the NHS or using money from another source\u201d. This could dash the government\u2019s hopes of increasing the numbers of \u2018home-grown\u2019 NHS staff, rather than recruiting from abroad. You can read more in the Nursing Times <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkhe.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=38cb47e4839143a7632226fc1&amp;id=278f5b1cfc&amp;e=372de92627\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>HEFCE have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hefce.ac.uk\/news\/newsarchive\/2016\/Name,110720,en.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced the latest round of funding<\/a> for degree apprenticeships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>International students and Brexit<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wonkhe have published <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkhe.com\/blogs\/data-brexit-hit-demand-differently-globe\/?mc_cid=f284b81143&amp;mc_eid=372de92627\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting analysis<\/a> of the impact of Brexit across the world<\/li>\n<li>The NUS are continuing their campaign against the lack of student representation in the Office for Students \u2013 they are encouraging sabbatical officers to apply for the position of Chair of the OfS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Fair access and progression<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Hillman from HEPI <a href=\"http:\/\/upp-foundation.org\/abc-widening-participation\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a challenging blog for the UPP Foundation<\/a> suggesting that bursaries are not the best way to support WP students.<\/li>\n<li>Wonkhe report that the UPP Foundation has announced funding for a new research project on how universities can support students from lower socio-economic backgrounds to improve employment outcomes after university \u2013 see the full press release <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkhe.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=38cb47e4839143a7632226fc1&amp;id=706457d7d0&amp;e=372de92627\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>And in other news<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our Pro-Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement, Dr Sonal Minocha, was with Jo Johnson, as part of the Prime Minister\u2019s visit to India this week.\u00a0 There has been a lot of coverage of the impact of immigration restrictions on Indian students \u2013 see for example the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-37891734\" target=\"_blank\">BBC on 7<sup>th<\/sup> November<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-37897476\" target=\"_blank\">BBC reality check<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I am giving a student briefing with SUBU on HE policy on Wednesday at 2.45 in the Barnes Lecture Theatre on Talbot Campus as part of Parliament Week \u2013 watch out for other events promoted by SUBU.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jane Forster<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>VC\u2019s Policy Adviser <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleagues, please see below the recent policy update from Jane Forster,\u00a0touching on Student Finance; International Students and Brexit; Fair Access and Progression, as well as other news: Lots of interesting developments in the UK last week while there has been a rather distracting international politics story abroad. Student finance The government have launched two new&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2016\/11\/14\/4318\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about HE policy update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,369,34,1],"tags":[59,304,397],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-access","category-policy","category-resource","category-uncategorized","tag-fair-access","tag-international-students","tag-student-finance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}