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Getting off the back foot – and taking the offensive

Getting off the back foot – and taking the offensive

by Becca Bashford | Nov 18, 2021 | Augar Review, CDBU Updates, Government, In the News, Marketisation, Opinion, Uncategorized

Words by Peter Scott, CDBU Trustee, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Studies at the UCL Institute of Education and former Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University.  Universities are not popular – with politicians. They are very popular with the hundreds of...
‘Skills for Jobs’ – what the FE Bill means for HE

‘Skills for Jobs’ – what the FE Bill means for HE

by Becca Bashford | May 27, 2021 | A-levels, Augar Review, Covid-19, Employability, Further education, Government, In the News, Opinion, Uncategorized

Words by Patrick Ainley, former professor of training and education at the University of Greenwich and regular contributor to the Post-16 Educator. The ‘Skills for Jobs’ Bill proposed in the Queen’s speech last week and introduced to Parliament today ‘is not a serious...

News round-up: A delay to the review of university finance – Brexit gets the blame

by CDBU Admin | Mar 1, 2019 | News round-up, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding, Widening access

The long-awaited review of university tuition fees might not now be published until May – and vice-chancellors make some robust criticisms of the potential cost of subject-level TEF   £7,500 tuition fees plan faces Brexit delay BBC, 01/03/2019, Sean Coughlan The...

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