2015 was a particularly important year for UK Higher Education with the publication of the Government’s Green Paper, Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice. The year also welcomed a range of influential research, most of which concentrated on two key issues, the value of HE and internationalisation. From the start,… Read more » about A Brief Review of 2015 in HE
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The UCAS End of Cycle Report 2015
The UCAS End of Cycle Report 2015 was published yesterday. This and the coming years will be of particular interest as we look at how policy reforms will impact the sector through changes in student decisions. For example, after the announcement of Government changing maintenance grants to loans next year, opening the cap for… Read more » about The UCAS End of Cycle Report 2015
Delegation to India Promoting UK HE
Vice Chancellor John Vinney and Pro Vice-Chancellor Sonal Minocha are in India this week from Wednesday 9 December to Friday 11 December as part of a UK ministerial delegation, with aims to raise UK’s higher education profile. BIS Secretary of State Sajid Javid and Minister for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson, have been joined… Read more » about Delegation to India Promoting UK HE
An Overview of the Week
Today’s Weekly Focus is a recap of some of the events that took place this week. On Monday, Hepi published a report which looked into student opinion on the 2017 Referendum. There was also the release of Hefce’s Prevent Strategy Report. On Tuesday, the BIS committee held the second evidence session of its inquiry into assessing… Read more » about An Overview of the Week
Climate Change and Global Challenges
The UN Climate Change Conference takes off next week in Paris from the 30th November to the 11th December. Heads of state, diplomats, scientists and other climate change experts and activists will come together in an attempt to – yet again – reach a global agreement. The last Conference held in Copenhagen in 2009 ended… Read more » about Climate Change and Global Challenges
A Summary of The Nurse Report and Some Responses
The Nurse Report, Ensuring a successful UK research endeavour: A Review of the UK Research Councils Sir Paul Nurse’s independent review of the UK Research Councils, which will advise Government on the future of how Research Councils can become more effective, has been published as part of the Government Science and Innovation Strategy published… Read more » about A Summary of The Nurse Report and Some Responses
The World Migration Report 2015
International Organization for Migration, World Migration Report 2015 This report focuses on the relationship between cities and migrants and how they each shape each other. People, experiences, organisations, structures and rules are dynamic, and what the report suggests is that human mobility and migration are excluded from the global debate of urbanisation in terms… Read more » about The World Migration Report 2015
How is the Green Paper shaping UK HE?
How is the #HEGreenPaper shaping the future of UK #HigherEd? Today at 8:40, the world of twitter received a text: @JoJohnsonMP ‘I’m publishing our higher education green paper today, Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility & Student Choice The Green Paper can be downloaded here. Universities UK has already responded, announcing… Read more » about How is the Green Paper shaping UK HE?
Certainties within the Imminent Green Paper
Wonkhe’s Mark Leach has published the weekly Monday Brief highlighting what appears to be certainties to expect from the awaited Green Paper and Comprehensive Spending Review. These certainties confirm concerns that many within the HE sector have been speculating, and will alter the HE landscape as we know it. The Government’s aim to simplify the… Read more » about Certainties within the Imminent Green Paper
The Role of HE in the 2015 Global Creativity Index
The Martin Prosperity Institute has published the 2015 Global Creativity Index (GCI) report which explores the role of cities within global capitalism, and is used to measure economic growth and sustainable prosperity through talent technology and tolerance. It uses these measures to rank 139 nations worldwide on creativity and prosperity. This year, Australia has ranked… Read more » about The Role of HE in the 2015 Global Creativity Index