The government have commissioned a series of assessments and reviews of the impact of immigration policy and Brexit via the Migration Advisory Committee:<\/p>\n
The Commissioning Letter from Amber Rudd<\/a> says:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Digital Economy Act provides a unique opportunity to improve understanding of the migration data and as part of this work the Home Office will be working with the ONS and other Government departments to improve the use of administrative data. This will lead to a greater understanding of how many migrants are in the UK, how long they stay for, and what they are currently doing. The ONS will be publishing an article in September setting out this fuller work plan and the timetable for moving towards this landscape for administrative data usage\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As well as the post-Brexit future of students, the letter also makes reference to the Tier 4 visa pilot which was launched last year and included a handful of universities. Amber Rudd says \u201cthe pilot is being carefully evaluated and, if successful, could be rolled out more widely<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n The pilot<\/a> covered masters courses at 4 universities:<\/p>\n A deluge of other data and reports gave also been published:<\/p>\n According to UUK:<\/p>\n A survey of access agreements<\/a> has been published this week by the Office for Fair Access. In their press release OFFA note that every university has committed to working with schools to help increase access to HE. The report also notes that universities will focus on improved evaluation of the impact of financial support and an evidence based approach more generally, a specific focus on White working class males and BME attainment, and more support for mental health issues.<\/p>\n The amount universities spend on widening access will rise<\/a><\/p>\n Responding<\/a> to the survey, UUK Chief Executive, Alistair Jarvis, said: “The enhancements in support provided by universities has helped to increase the entry rate for disadvantaged young people to record levels. All UK universities work hard to widen participation and support disadvantaged students throughout their time at university. It is right to expect a continued focus on support for disadvantaged students to make further progress in closing the gap between different student groups<\/em>.”<\/p>\n The formal outcome of the Industrial Strategy consultation is still pending. However, there has been a reasonable amount of activity in the meantime and we thought it might be helpful to do a round up.<\/p>\n Clusters – <\/strong>The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have set up a Creative Industries Clusters Programme<\/a>, starting in 2018, to facilitate collaboration between the industry and universities. The pre-call announcement<\/a> sets out the plan for at least 8 research and development partnerships, each led by an HEI, and a Policy and Evidence Centre. Calls will apparently open in October 2018.<\/p>\n Sector deals – <\/strong>As part of the Industrial strategy green paper, the government announced that there were 5 sector reviews taking place and suggested that they would welcome more.<\/p>\n Other organisations are setting up consultations and other reviews to respond to the Industrial Strategy, such as:<\/p>\n The interim findings of the industrial digitalisation review are interesting \u2013 they are working on a final report for the autumn of 2017:<\/p>\n Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund – <\/strong>Innovate UK are running the Industrial strategy Challenge Fund<\/a> \u2013 in April 2017 they identified 6 \u201ccore industrial challenges\u201d:<\/p>\n House of Lords Library briefing on Digital Skills in the UK<\/a> \u2013 published ahead of a debate on 7th<\/sup> September 2017<\/p>\n On-line information and Fake News<\/a> \u2013 POST report July 2017<\/p>\n JANE 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Interesting reading<\/h2>\n