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This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew. M .Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). You can find Andrew on Twitter @andrewboggs and OxCHEPs @oxcheps . Of the dozen or so documents relating to higher education published by the Department for Education on 21…
This blog has been written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher – the body representing over forty London-based universities and higher education colleges. She was previously Policy Adviser to the last three Universities Ministers. You can find Diana on Twitter @dianajbeech . Buried among the flurry…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, who is on Twitter @noookophile. Official consultations are important documents, if only to allow the issuer to claim that ‘we consulted widely’. Whether or not the issuer is influenced by any responses is another matter, and those responses are of course heavily…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Scott Kelly. Scott lectures in British Politics at NYU and was an adviser to the Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning 2010-12. He has written papers for HEPI on BTECs and Levels 4 and 5. For anyone who has been involved…
This blog was kindly contributed by Luke Myer, Policy and Public Affairs Officer at the Quality Assurance Agency. It is based on a private roundtable discussion in December with senior sector stakeholders in England. You can find Luke on Twitter @luke_myer. Last week, the Westminster Government’s long-awaited Skills white paper…
On Thursday, the Department of Education published a whole range of documents announcing developments in further and higher education. We were both overwhelmed with information and felt short-changed by the lack of firm details in some areas, such as the response to the Augar review which only received an interim response, with…
This blog was kindly contributed by Daniel Dipper, a first year History and Politics undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford. You can find Daniel on Twitter @DanielDipper1 . Having started studying BA History and Politics at Magdalen College, the University of Oxford, in a time like no other, the first term…
Today, the Department for Education has delivered at least partial responses to many of the key sector debates from the last few years. With the release of the Skills for Jobs White Paper, an interim response to the Augar review, a consultation on post-qualification admissions reform, publication of the independent report on the Teaching Excellence and Student…
Slow thinking A few years ago, there was a vogue for ‘slow thinking’, ‘slow food’ and even for a whole ‘slow movement’, all of which were aimed at reducing the pace of life down. In recent years, people watching UK higher education policy might well have felt the idea was…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Kate Mori, Quality and Standards Specialist at the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). Kate is working on the update of Education for Sustainable Development Guidance. You can find Kate on Twitter @katemori1. The Education for Sustainable Development Guidance is being updated by an expert…